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PowerSchool Paid a Hacker’s Ransom. Now Cyber Criminals Are Threatening Schools
School districts that were affected by a PowerSchool data hack in December are now facing extortion attempts by cyber ...
After the PowerSchool hack: What are NC's cybersecurity standards?
The PowerSchool breach exposed personally identifying and academic data on students and teachers at every North Carolina ...
PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty to student data extortion scheme
A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to a massive cyberattack on ...
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PowerSchool breach worse than thought, company says "all" student and teacher data accessed
Threat actors accessed PowerSchool student information system and stole data on students and teachers in December 2024 Multiple companies confirmed all data, covering as long as they had used ...
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PowerSchool Issues Nationwide Data Breach Alert: What We Know
"Not all PowerSchool student information system customers were impacted, and we anticipate that only a subset of impacted customers will have notification obligations," the company said.
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What is PowerSchool and how was it breached?
If your school district uses PowerSchool, you may have been impacted. School districts are reaching out to parents to let them know the extent of their exposure. Not all PowerSchool customers have ...
Infinite Campus 'on track' to replace PowerSchool in Wake schools by July 1, district leaders say
Infinite Campus is the new system that parents and school employees will use to enter and maintain all kinds of data on ...
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PowerSchool Breach Victim Says Hackers Stole All Student Data
Another source who works at a school district with almost 9,000 students said the hackers now had demographic data for all teachers and students since the time they joined PowerSchool. The ...
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A lawsuit accuses Bain Capital's PowerSchool of trafficking in student data. The edtech giant says everything it does is legal.
"The claims made in the complaint are unfounded and inaccurate," Zerbach, the PowerSchool spokesman, told BI. The company "strictly and proactively follows all legal, regulatory, and voluntary ...
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PowerSchool hack exposes student, teacher data from K-12 districts
A PowerSchool spokesperson told BleepingComputer that customer tickets, customer credentials, or forum data were not exposed or exfiltrated in the breach. The company also stressed that not all ...
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PowerSchool hit by cyberattack which saw student and teacher data stolen
PowerSchool notified the affected individuals via a breach notification letter, and stressed that not all PowerSchool SIS customers were impacted. Only a subset of customers received the update ...
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PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted
Several school districts that used PowerSchool at the time of the breach told TechCrunch that “all” of their historical student and teacher data was compromised In the case of Toronto’s ...