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Kept in the Dark — Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Dissent

Kept in the Dark Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden By Mark Keierleber This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. This article is published in partnership with WIRED…

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Cybersecurity Incident Impacting Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD)

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Dissent

Legacy data and servers have bitten another entity. Kudos to Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD), though, for the clarity of their public notice, linked prominently from their home page. Their notice: We want to inform our community about a recent cybersecurity incident involving Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD). During an investigation into a breach affecting…

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Toronto student information dating back to 1985 may have been accessed in PowerSchool cyber incident

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Dissent

Meredith Bond reports: Student information for those who attended Toronto District School Board as far back as 1985 may have been compromised by a cyber incident that happened in December 2024. On Jan. 8, the TDSB sent a letter to parents explaining the incident involving the PowerSchool software, which is used by many boards across…

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PowerSchool Faces Suit Over Breach of Student, Teacher Data

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Dissent

Christopher Brown reports: PowerSchool Holdings Inc. is facing three federal lawsuits alleging the education software provider negligently failed to protect the personal information of students, parents, and teachers that was exposed in a December data breach. Sheilah Buack-Shelton, Tyler Baker, and Kimberly Kinney alleged in separate complaints that PowerSchool breached its duties under common law,…

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PowerSchool Sued Over December Breach of Student, Teacher Data

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Dissent

Christopher Brown reports: PowerSchool Holdings Inc. is facing three federal lawsuits alleging the education software provider negligently failed to protect the personal information of students, parents, and teachers that was exposed in a December data breach. Sheilah Buack-Shelton, Tyler Baker, and Kimberly Kinney alleged in separate complaints that PowerSchool breached its duties under common law,…

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PowerSchool Incident: A few resources for teachers, parents, and former students (2)

Posted on January 10, 2025January 14, 2025 by Dissent

DataBreaches is trying to keep up with updates from PowerSchool, but from the outset, DataBreaches has recommended districts, parents, and teachers assume the worst — i.e., assume that all of the data really weren’t deleted permanently. On the premise of better safe than sorry, and reminding people that PowerSchool’s attorney is not YOUR attorney, here…

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