PowerSchool says hackers stole students’ sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, in data breach
In an FAQ obtained by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirms it negotiated with the threat actors responsible for the breach.
Indiana school and student data possibly leaked due to security breach at PowerSchool
Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Some of the local Indiana schools, like Brownsburg and Carmel Clay Schools, had notified their families of the breach and whether data was leaked early Wednesday afternoon.
PowerSchool Experiences Data Breach Affecting an Unknown Number of Students and Administrators
PowerSchool sent out a round of emails to certain school districts announcing that the company had experienced a data breach.
Horry County Schools says none of its data compromised in PowerSchool security breach
No Horry County Schools data was “affected or compromised” by a recent nationwide PowerSchool security breach, a district spokesperson said Thursday in a news release. “After an internal district investigation by the HCS Information Technology Department,
Union County Public Schools affected by NC student information system data breach
Union County Public Schools says it’s among districts affected by a breach in the state’s student information system, which resulted in unauthorized access to student and teacher data.
Needham, Nashoba school districts among those possibly affected by PowerSchool data breach
School officials learned of the “potential cybersecurity incident” on Tuesday, Needham Public Schools Superintendent Dan Gutekanst said in a statement.
PowerSchool data breach compromises data of North Carolina Public School teachers and students
Winston Salem/Forsyth County schools and Wilkes County Schools are among the many school systems affected by a power school data breach. PowerSchool is a platform used by school systems to manage information in and out of the classroom. The company says the breach happened after a contract employee’s credentials were compromised.
Data breach at New Trier High School exposed records of thousands of students and graduates
New Trier said the data that was accessed included names and school ID numbers. No current students' Social Security numbers were accessed, but some former students' were.
Lower Merion and Haverford are part of a school data breach involving personal student and staff information
The Lower Merion and Haverford Township school districts are among schools nationally affected by a data breach involving PowerSchool software, district officials said Wednesday. Officials said they aren’t yet sure what data were accessed,
PowerSchool reviewing impact of data breach affecting school districts in Mass. and other states
The educational software giant said it doesn’t anticipate any of the compromised information “being shared or made public,” as a review of the incident continues.
School software provider is the latest target of major hack of personal data
The sensitive data of millions of American adults and children have been compromised after hackers targeted California-based education software company PowerSchool, the company confirmed this week. The breach happened at the end of December,
PowerSchool Issues Nationwide Data Breach Alert: What We Know
A spokesperson for the company said an "unauthorized actor" accessed and stole sensitive customer information.
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