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Cyber Threat Escalates: PowerSchool Cybercriminal Returns to Extort Individual Schools Months After Massive Data Breach Purportedly Resolved

When PowerSchool announced in January that it fell victim to a massive data breach at the end of 2024, it assured the thousands of schools and over 50 million students who use the education software ...

Education boards left gates wide open for PowerSchool mega-breach, say watchdogs

Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records ...
Security

Middlebury schools announces Experian partnership in wake of PowerSchool cybersecurity attack

Middlebury Community Schools was one of several schools impacted by a PowerSchool cybersecurity incident two weeks ago. PowerSchool, the cloud-based software vendor, experienced a cybersecurity ...
Action News Jax

‘Prime targets’: St. Johns County students’ information stolen in PowerSchool cyberattack

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — A cybersecurity attack on a software system that schools internationally use is having local impacts. It’s called PowerSchool, and the St. Johns County School district ...
WMUR

Hassan, NH officials discuss data security after PowerSchool breach

STUDENTS WERE IMPACTED BY THIS POWER BREACH. YEAH. OFFICIALS SAY THE BREACH PUTS STUDENTS AT RISK OF IDENTITY FRAUD. THE LEAK INCLUDED PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION LIKE SOME STUDENT NAMES, AGES ...
AOL

School software provider is the latest target of major hack of personal data

Education software company PowerSchool is the latest major American company to be targeted by hackers, who accessed the personal data of millions of parents and students. (Photo illustration by seksan ...

Individual notices starting to go out about PowerSchool data breach

If you're a student or teacher — or were one in the past few decades — you may be getting a head's up soon that your personal ...
thedailytimes

Maryville schools joins lawsuit against PowerSchool over data breach

Maryville City Schools Board of Education voted to take part in a mass action lawsuit against student information system company PowerSchool in their Monday evening meeting. PowerSchool’s system is ...
The Business Journals

PowerSchool's hacker, a college student, agrees to plead guilty, prosecutors say

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min A 19-year-old college student ...
The Verge

PowerSchool starts sending breach notifications, but there are still questions left to answer

One month later, PowerSchool has yet to disclose how many people were affected. One month later, PowerSchool has yet to disclose how many people were affected. writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, ...
The Business Journals

PowerSchool data breach for some included personally identifiable information

PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,000 customers worldwide, helps schools keep track of grades, attendance and class schedules, along with multiple other education ...
WAFF

PowerSchool offering identity theft monitoring following cybersecurity incident

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Parents of public school students across the country are getting emails updating them on the PowerSchool hack. As WAFF 48 News reported in early January, the school records ...