Education software giant PowerSchool suffered from a hack that might have put the sensitive data of K-12 students and teachers at risk. It’s unclear how many people were affected, but the PowerSchool ...

Powerschool Holdings LLC and the Chicago Public Schools will pay $17.25 million to settle a proposed class action alleging they illegally collected and disclosed students’ personal information through ...

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 use ...

PowerSchool sells student data without parents' informed consent, a federal lawsuit alleges. The edtech giant calls the lawsuit's allegations "unfounded and inaccurate." Oral arguments on ...

A hacker who stole data about students and teachers from the international PowerSchool database was paid a ransom to destroy the data. Now schools are facing extortion threats. Dreamstime/TNS TNS ...

GREENVILLE, Mich. — School database provider, PowerSchool is scrambling to recover and protect data after a hacker breached their system in mid-December. The first district reported to be impacted in ...

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School districts known to be impacted by the PowerSchool breach are listed the bottom of the article. Education software giant PowerSchool has confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident that ...

PowerSchool, the powerhouse educational software company based in Folsom, has agreed to be acquired by Bain Capital in a deal worth $5.6 billion, the companies announced Friday. The purchase will earn ...

A global data breach of PowerSchool compromised persoal data for North Carolina students and teachers. Dreamstime/TNS TNS A global data breach of the PowerSchool information system means that a hacker ...

FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), a leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to ...

PowerSchool is warning that the hacker behind its December cyberattack is now individually extorting schools, threatening to release the previously stolen student and teacher data if a ransom is not ...