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 ...

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 ...

PowerSchool, which serves over 60 million students and teachers globally, has become the latest target of cybercriminals. Millions of records were stolen.

PowerSchool is a company that districts can hire to store student information. Many parents can check their student's grades, attendance and other data using PowerSchool. School districts can also ...

U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool has begun notifying individuals affected by a December 2024 data breach that likely affects millions of students and teachers across North America.

However, PowerSchool officials said that most districts leave the field for student Social Security numbers empty. That's the practice in Lenox and in Pittsfield, Lenox Superintendent William Collins ...

The breach happened within PowerSchool’s customer support portal. “An unauthorized party gained access to certain SIS customer data, including Colchester Public Schools data, through a ...

PowerSchool made a mistake in not enforcing MFA for its employees, especially those with access to sensitive data. Fortunately, you can avoid PowerSchool’s failure—and you should.

PowerSchool has reported the breach to law enforcement and the company says it has enlisted the help of law enforcement and others to monitor the internet for signs of the PowerSchool data.

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 ...

After investors took PowerSchool private last June for $5.6 billion, it didn’t take long for a harrowing cyber breach to rattle the software giant which boasts 75% market share of the K-12 ...

M onths 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 ...