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(NewsNation) — A leading education technology firm was the target of a data security breach last month, potentially exposing millions of students and teachers’ sensitive data including Social Security ...

Memphis-Shelby County Schools has sued PowerSchool for a data breach that, according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, saw hackers obtain ...

Data belonging to an unknown number of Hanover County Public Schools students was stolen in a recent breach of a major ...

NEWS. KARA THANK YOU. ALSO NEW TONIGHT. AN UPDATE ON THE POWER SCHOOL HACK WE TOLD YOU ABOUT EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE SOFTWARE PROVIDER HAS BEEN USED IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA. IT MANAGES ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The incident happened back in December, and as the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office enters the second stage of its investigation, it’s demanding even more answers. “That ...

Stolen personal student and teacher data that was supposed to be destroyed after a ransom was paid is now being used to extort individual school districts. In December, a hacker gained access to ...

Waynesboro Public Schools is still trying to determine just how many students and staff had their personal data compromised after PowerSchool, a popular K-12 software provider, was hacked in late ...

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — St. Johns County Schools confirms it was impacted by what may be the largest breach of American children's personal information to date. The nationwide hack involves the ...

The days of PowerSchool are over for North Carolina students and parents. All North Carolina public schools are now using a competing service, Infinite Campus, to track critical data and information ...

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 ...