What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach
The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions
PowerSchool Confirms Breach: Was Your Kid's Data Exposed?
Education technology giant PowerSchool has confirmed a data breach that may have exposed information on millions of schoolchildren, putting them at risk of identity theft. PowerSchool has over 18,000 clients,
Expert issues warning after PowerSchool data breach
PowerSchool, a widely used platform among districts in western Washington, including Seattle and Everett, confirmed the breach.
PowerSchool data breach a ‘statewide issue,’ 300K+ teachers’ social security numbers exposed
Professor noted the need for continued pushes for multi-factor authentication for educational services that require such extensive identifying information.
Over 60 million students & teachers data may have been stolen in PowerSchool breach
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Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Bleeping Computer on Wednesday also reported that an extortion note the attacker sent to PowerSchool claimed that the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers was swept up in the breach. PowerSchool said it’s offering two years of free credit monitoring to all those affected.
The PowerSchool Breach May Have Compromised Over 70 Million Users' Data
One of the latest significant information leaks involves data from PowerSchool, a software provider for thousands of K–12 school districts in the United States and Canada. The incident affected millions of users.
Local schools impacted by massive PowerSchool data breach, lawsuit filed
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A federal lawsuit filed in California claims that PowerSchool, a widely used educational software company, was negligent in protecting personal information, potentially exposing the data of millions of students and teachers across the country.
Millions Impacted by PowerSchool Data Breach
Four decades of student and educator information was stolen from PowerSchool – tens of millions are potentially affected.
PowerSchool Data Breach May Have Affected 62M Kids, 9.5M Teachers
A new report from Bleeping Computer suggests the hacker infiltrated the entire PowerSchool userbase, but PowerSchool declined to confirm or deny the numbers to PCMag.
Thousands of CMS students, teachers impacted in data breach
A nationwide hack has exposed hundreds of thousands of students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools district, according to BleepingComputer.com
How victims of PowerSchool’s data breach helped each other investigate ‘massive’ hack
School workers say they resorted to crowdsourcing help among each other following PowerSchool's breach, fueled by solidarity ...
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PowerSchool data breach: What to know, how students are impacted
PowerSchool, a software provider popular at K-12 schools, was the target of a data breach in late December that affected many districts in the U.S. and in other countries, according to the company ...
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PowerSchool’s cyberbreach not an issue in this province
Only one Saskatchewan school division has been publicly identified as having its information included in a potential ...
PowerSchool hack keeps getting worse - 62 million students now thought to be affected
The PowerSchool hack seems to have been much worse than originally believed, as new reports now claim more than 62 million ...
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PowerSchool offering identity protection, credit monitoring after data breach
PowerSchool is now offering identity protection and credit monitoring for some of the people affected by its recent data ...