PowerSchool Confirms Breach: Was Your Kid's Data Exposed?
Education technology giant PowerSchool has confirmed a data breach that may have exposed information on millions of schoolchildren, putting them at risk of identity theft. PowerSchool has over 18,000 clients,
What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach
The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions
PowerSchool data breach a ‘statewide issue,’ 300K+ teachers’ social security numbers exposed
Professor noted the need for continued pushes for multi-factor authentication for educational services that require such extensive identifying information.
Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Bleeping Computer on Wednesday also reported that an extortion note the attacker sent to PowerSchool claimed that the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers was swept up in the breach. PowerSchool said it’s offering two years of free credit monitoring to all those affected.
Over 60 million students & teachers data may have been stolen in PowerSchool breach
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Expert issues warning after PowerSchool data breach
PowerSchool, a widely used platform among districts in western Washington, including Seattle and Everett, confirmed the breach.
PowerSchool data breach: What to know, how students are impacted
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 and several impacted schools .
PowerSchool Breach Victim Says Hackers Stole All Student Data
The districts involved in the PowerSchool cyberattack say hackers have access to previous student and teacher data.
More than 70 million students and teachers had their personal data stolen in PowerSchool breach
As reported by BleepingComputer, the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers was exposed during the attack when the threat actor used stolen credentials to access the PowerSchool customer support portal. After which, they used a maintenance access tool to download the data from districts’ PowerSIS databases.
Millions Impacted by PowerSchool Data Breach
Four decades of student and educator information was stolen from PowerSchool – tens of millions are potentially affected.
PowerSchool Data Breach May Have Affected 62M Kids, 9.5M Teachers
A new report from Bleeping Computer suggests the hacker infiltrated the entire PowerSchool userbase, but PowerSchool declined to confirm or deny the numbers to PCMag.
How victims of PowerSchool’s data breach helped each other investigate ‘massive’ hack
School workers say they resorted to crowdsourcing help among each other following PowerSchool's breach, fueled by solidarity ...
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PowerSchool’s cyberbreach not an issue in this province
Only one Saskatchewan school division has been publicly identified as having its information included in a potential ...
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PowerSchool offering identity protection, credit monitoring after data breach
PowerSchool is now offering identity protection and credit monitoring for some of the people affected by its recent data ...