A December data breach exposed the records of millions of North Carolina students and teachers who had, at one point, used ...

PowerSchool is warning that the hacker behind its December cyberattack is now individually extorting schools, threatening to ...

Cybercriminals demanded ransom payments from school districts nationwide this week, using millions of K-12 students’ ...

Software maker said it paid its attackers even as the true size of the theft is still unknown.

Data breaches and other cyber incidents can have "real life consequences," leaving students at greater risk of identity theft ...

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen ...

On Wednesday, several school and NCDPI employees across North Carolina received messages from threat actors claiming to have ...

Students, gather round for the sad story of how PowerSchool got schooled by hackers, who stole data on students and teachers.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will not be renewing its contract with PowerSchool in the wake of a data ...

Threat actors are trying to extort some public schools by threatening them with teacher and student information stolen in a December 2024 data breach of PowerSchool’s Student Information System ...

Dozens of school employees in the state have already received threatening emails claiming to have sensitive data. Experts ...