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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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PowerSchool discloses breach affecting hosted and self-hosted school k-12 districts (2)

Posted on January 8, 2025January 9, 2025 by Dissent

Yesterday, PowerSchool disclosed that on December 28, it had become aware of a data breach that affected some, but not all, of its PowerSchool clients. PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) is used by school districts worldwide to help schools manage student educational records including grades, attendance, and enrollment. Emails were sent to all PowerSchool clients…

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Two ransomware groups claimed they attacked Rutherford County Schools. One leaked sensitive records. (UPDATED)

Posted on January 7, 2025January 7, 2025 by Dissent

From the “Wait-What-Happened-Here Dept:” On October 19, the Black Suit ransomware group announced that they had attacked Rutherford County Schools in Tennessee. Their listing, posted on their dark web site, included what appears to be an indication of what data and how much data they were able to exfiltrate. It did not indicate whether they…

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KY: Personal data of Boone, Kenton County students breached, school officials say

Posted on December 24, 2024 by Dissent

Danielle Goodman reports: Personal data from current and former students in Boone and Kenton County school districts may have been accessed and copied in cyber attacks earlier this month, according to school district announcements. School district officials said the data breaches appear to have stemmed from phishing schemes, where cybercriminals trick users into providing sensitive…

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Granite School District breach worse than the district has revealed — former employee (1)

Posted on December 17, 2024December 21, 2024 by Dissent

Some former employees of Granite School District in Utah are reporting frustration and anger with the district’s incident response to an attack by the Rhysida group. One has written up what he found when he examined the publicly leaked data. On September 20, 2024, Granite became aware of suspicious activity on its network.  An investigation…

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