Hacker wipes 13,000 devices after breaching classroom management platform. A hacker has breached Mobile Guardian, a digital classroom management platform used worldwide, and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 student’s iPads and Chromebooks. Mobile Guardian, a ‘Google for Education’ partner, is a cross-platform (Android, Windows, iOS, ChromeOS, macOS) one-on-one solution for K-12 schools that offers a complete suite of device management, parental monitoring and control, secure web filtering, classroom management, and communications. The platform announced it suffered a security breach on August 4, 2024, where a hacker gained unauthorized access to its platform, impacting its North American, European, and Singaporean instances. Third-party company: Mobile Guardian.