Chicago Public Schools is selling off 21 school properties, hoping the sales will result in a nice windfall of cash and reduced maintenance costs in the long run. This board applauds such sensible ...

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being ...

Chicago Public Schools officials expressed the urgency of additional funding from the city and state as they prepare for the release of “school-level budgets,” with the assumption they will ...

A hacker who stole data about students and teachers from the international PowerSchool database was paid a ransom to destroy the data. Now schools are facing extortion threats. Dreamstime/TNS TNS ...

PowerSchool is warning that the hacker behind its December cyberattack is now individually extorting schools, threatening to release the previously stolen student and teacher data if a ransom is ...

The company said at the time that it had paid the hacker a ransom to allegedly delete the stolen data, but it has repeatedly refused to disclose the sum it paid. Now, Toronto's district school ...

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker's ransom to delete the company's banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being extorted by ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- As the school year winds down, time is ticking to name a new Chicago Public Schools CEO. While the 21-member School Board is a divided one, they all agree the district's next ...

Education software provider PowerSchool said it paid a ransom to hackers who stole data on school students, teachers and others from its system last year, after several school districts reported ...

In December, a hacker gained access to personal data for students and teachers across the world in the database for the PowerSchool student information system. PowerSchool told users that the ...

Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) is suing PowerSchool, a student information system provider, for a data breach affecting nearly 500,000 current and former students and over 23,000 staff.