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Columbia University data breach impacts nearly 870,000 individuals
An unknown threat actor has stolen the sensitive personal, financial, and health information of nearly 870,000 Columbia University current and former students and employees after breaching the university’s network in May. Established in 1767 as King’s College, Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university with a budget of $6.6 billion in 2024, over […]
PowerSchool hacker now extorting individual school districts
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 paid. “PowerSchool is aware that a threat actor has reached out to multiple school district customers in an attempt to extort them using data from the previously reported […]
PowerSchool starts notifying victims of massive data breach
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. Though this is a step forward, the company has still not officially disclosed the exact number of individuals impacted by the security incident. Moreover, a detailed report on what exactly has […]
PowerSchool hacker claims they stole data of 62 million students
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 is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts that provides tools for enrollment, communication, attendance, staff management, learning systems, analytics, and finance. On January […]
PowerSchool hack exposes student, teacher data from K-12 districts
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 allowed a threat actor to steal the personal information of students and teachers from school districts using its PowerSchool SIS platform. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions […]