Professor noted the need for continued pushes for multi-factor authentication for educational services that require such extensive identifying information.

PowerSchool, a widely used platform among districts in western Washington, including Seattle and Everett, confirmed the breach.

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,

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.

One of the latest significant information leaks involves data from PowerSchool, a software provider for thousands of K–12 school districts in the United States and Canada. The incident affected millions of users.

School workers say they resorted to crowdsourcing help among each other following PowerSchool's breach, fueled by solidarity and the slow response from PowerSchool.

Four decades of student and educator information was stolen from PowerSchool – tens of millions are potentially affected.

PowerSchool says the personal information of students and educators was stolen in a December 2024 data breach.

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.