Ninfa Saavedra reports:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against PowerSchool, a California-based provider of cloud-based services for K-12 schools, after an unprecedented data breach exposed the sensitive personal identifying information and protected health information of more than 880,000 Texas school-aged children and teachers, including Houston ISD schools.
According to Paxton, PowerSchool’s software collects, processes, and secures sensitive information that Texas schools require from parents enrolling their children and from their employees.
Read more at Click2Houston.
AttorneyGeneral Paxton’s press release claims, “PowerSchool’s failures violate both the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act by misleading customers about its security practices and failing to take reasonable measures to protect sensitive information entrusted by Texas families and school districts.”