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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Hacker who promised to destroy stolen PowerSchool data now wants money from schools
Ransom demands have been sent to school districts across the U.S. and Canada, including at least 20 North Carolina school districts and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The hacker ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
PowerSchool breach: Why children are especially vulnerable to data breaches and how to protect them
A December data breach exposed the records of millions of North Carolina students and teachers who had, at one point, used ...
PowerSchool Paid Ransom to Hackers After Breach
Software maker said it paid its attackers even as the true size of the theft is still unknown.