The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions

As reported by BleepingComputer, the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers was exposed during the attack when the threat actor used stolen credentials to access the PowerSchool customer support portal. After which, they used a maintenance access tool to download the data from districts’ PowerSIS databases.

The PowerSchool data breach has impacted school boards across North America, with Canada's largest saying about 1.49 million students dating back to 1985 were impacted.

A trove of information on current and former students and teachers was accessed during the December cyberattack, sources say

PowerSchool, a software provider popular at K-12 schools, was the target of a data breach in late December that affected many districts in the U.S. and in other countries, according to the company and several impacted schools .

PowerSchool says the personal information of students and educators was stolen in a December 2024 data breach.

Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years' worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach. In a letter

A data breach at education-management software company PowerSchool appears to have included personally identifiable information for some current and former students and teachers across the country.