The breach is the latest in a series of high-profile cybersecurity incidents affecting K-12 schools, which are a top target of hackers and are uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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Student and faculty names, birthdates, contact information—and in some cases, medical data and Social Security Numbers—were ...

The student information system used by every public school in the state fell victim to a data breach that may have put Alabama students’ medical and grade information at risk, according to the ...

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School districts across Southwestern Pennsylvania might be impacted by a cybersecurity breach of global student information system PowerSchool ... be among the impacted data.

POWERSCHOOL SAYS LATE LAST MONTH IT WAS ALERTED TO A BREACH OF ITS STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM. ACCORDING TO THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE, THAT SOFTWARE HANDLES A WIDE RANGE OF SERVICES, FROM ATTENDANCE ...

PowerSchool is the data storage and information system used across the state’s public school system. It became aware of a nationwide cybersecurity incident involving student and teacher data Dec ...

The security breach was limited to the company's student information system database, which includes parent and student names and contact information and, in some cases, social security numbers ...