The edtech giant is notifying state attorneys general about the breach but won’t say how many individuals have been affected

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,

Rocky View Schools provided another update on the PowerSchool Data Breach that took place on January 7th. The breach exposed personal data for students, parents, and staff. PowerSchool informed RVS of the incident on Jan.

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.

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.

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

A third-party software provider that maintains student and teacher data for school districts across the country disclosed it suffered a data breach earlier this month.

PowerSchool says its software stores information of over 62 million K-12 students and teachers across more than 18,000 customers.

If you're a student or teacher — or were one in the past few decades — you may soon be getting a head's up that your personal information was accessed as part of the widespread PowerSchool cyber breach that recently hit Canadian school boards.