Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
3 days ago · Last week, California's Menlo Park City School District said stolen information belonged to all current students and staff, all students enrolled since the start of the 2009–2010 school year ...
PowerSchool data breach a ‘statewide issue,’ 300K+ teachers’ …
2 days ago · CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — More than 300,000 North Carolina teachers had their Social Security numbers exposed in a recent data breach involving educational platform PowerSchool, and are among millions of others, including students across the country, that are affected.The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction said 312,000 teachers statewide are affected.
PowerSchool data breach: Explaining how it happened - TechTarget
3 days ago · PowerSchool hired cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike to help investigate the alleged attack. PowerSchool paid some form of fee to the attackers to keep the data from being released. By paying these threat actors to destroy the stolen data, this incident is an extortionware event.
News | PowerSchool
Sep 17, 2024 · PowerSchool press releases, news and company updates.
PowerSchool data breach: 60 million students' data could be …
1 day ago · A new report from BleepingComputer, a cybersecurity news outlet, said the data breach impacted more than 62 million students and over 9.5 million teachers across 6,500 school districts ...
PowerSchool data breach exposes millions of student and ... - Fox News
Jan 12, 2025 · PowerSchool, which serves over 60 million students and teachers globally, has become the latest target of cybercriminals. Millions of records were stolen.
PowerSchool to be Acquired by Bain Capital in $5.6 Billion …
FOLSOM, Calif. – June 7, 2024 - PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PWSC) (“PowerSchool” or “the Company”), a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Bain Capital in a transaction valuing the Company at $5.6 billion.
Edtech giant PowerSchool says hackers accessed personal data of ...
Jan 8, 2025 · Education technology giant PowerSchool has told customers that it experienced a “cybersecurity incident” that allowed hackers to compromise the personal data of students and teachers in K-12...
What Schools Should Know About the PowerSchool Data Breach
Jan 9, 2025 · PowerSchool, which says its suite of school software products have more than 16,000 customers that serve 50 million students in the United States, this week notified affected customers of the...
PowerSchool hack exposes student, teacher data from K-12 districts
Jan 7, 2025 · Education software giant PowerSchool has confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident that allowed a threat actor to steal the personal information of students and teachers from school...