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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PowerSchool comments that it only became aware of the situation last month. It sent out a message to affected customers, saying, “As a main point of contact for your school district, we are ...

PowerSchool hasn’t said what types of data were stolen Not only do we not know how many people were affected, but we also don’t know how much or what types of data were accessed during the breach.

PowerSchool serves 18,000 customers worldwide, including schools in the U.S. and Canada, managing grading, attendance and personal information for over 60 million K-12 students and teachers.

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.

PowerSchool said Wednesday that it had paid the ransom “in the days following” the discovery of hackers in its system on Dec. 28. The size of the ransom wasn’t disclosed.

Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack.

The Glen Cove, Hicksville, Jericho, Lynbrook, Middle Country Central and West Hempstead school districts alerted their communities last week that PowerSchool, the cloud-based software company ...