Early October 2025, Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS) students got their accounts compromised and sent emails to other AAPS students that were later identified as phishing.
Phishing emails are malicious emails that attempt to steal the recipient’s personal information through suspicious links, attachments, and more. The phishing email contained a table asking the user to open the attachments, which turned out to contain malware. Many of the messages sent used titles like “Review And Sign Document Attached” and other generic subjects. They appeared to be from AAPS students, deceiving some people.
“It was really frustrating and annoying,” an anonymous Huron student, whose account was compromised by the incident, said. “If you get sent something strange and [Google] gives you a scam warning, listen to it.”…