The company said at the time that it had paid the hacker a ransom to allegedly delete the stolen data, but it has repeatedly refused to disclose the sum it paid.. Now, Toronto’s district school ...

The PowerSchool hack appears to be one of the most significant breaches of child data ever in the U.S. Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images. Jan. 31, 2025, 5:00 AM EST. By Kevin Collier.

School districts that were affected by a PowerSchool data hack in December are now facing extortion attempts by cyber criminals, according to the K-12 ed-tech company. PowerSchool, which runs the ...

E ducation 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 won’t say how much it paid the hacker responsible for the breach. PowerSchool told TechCrunch that the organization had taken “appropriate steps” to prevent the stolen data from ...

Private assessments of the hack show the company failed to take basic steps to protect students’ data. PowerSchool hired the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to help investigate the breach.

When pressed by WRAL, PowerSchool didn’t dispute that the company was unaware of the hack until the hacker contacted them, paying a ransom, watching the hacker delete the data via video and that ...

The hacker who breached education tech giant PowerSchool claimed in an extortion demand that they stole the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers.

PowerSchool said it had faced a difficult decision whether to pay the ransom demanded by the hacker. “In the days following our discovery of the December 2024 incident, we made the decision to ...

In a statement Wednesday, PowerSchool confirmed it had paid a ransom to the hacker in hopes of having the data destroyed. The company says the hacker did not honor the deal.

PowerSchool said it paid a ransom in exchange for the data's destruction, though cybersecurity experts have consistently warned since the hack not to trust that the hacker has destroyed the data.

M onths after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being ...