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PowerSchool Paid Ransom to Hackers

PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being extorted by someone who said the data was not destroyed.

Government Technology · 55m

Paid Off Once Already, PowerSchool Hacker Demands More Money

A cyber criminal who successfully extorted the software company PowerSchool for ransom in December 2024 did not delete the stolen data as promised. Now the same culprit appears to be threatening individual districts.

The Wall Street Journal · 22h

PowerSchool Paid Ransom to Hackers After Breach

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

US school districts face extortion threat

NBC News on MSN · 21h

School districts hit with extortion attempts months after education tech data breach

PowerSchool is one of the largest education software providers in North America, and it was hit with a major data breach in 2024.

U.S. News & World Report · 21h

US School Districts Facing Extortion Attempt After Hack, Software Provider Says

REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration DETROIT (Reuters) -Hackers have tried to extort "multiple" school districts in the United States using previously stolen data from education software and cloud provider PowerSchool,

Yahoo · 17h

NC school districts received threats over breached student, staff data

Several school districts across North Carolina have received threats claiming to have accessed private student and teacher data.

WUNC40m

NC Superintendent Green says 'threat actors' tried to get ransom for PowerSchool data

There's been another breach involving student and teacher data stored on PowerSchool software, State Superintendent of Public ...

WBTV on MSN4h

North Carolina won’t renew PowerSchool contract after data breach, texts from ‘threat actors’

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

carolinacoastonline.com1h

Statewide data threat appears to have little impact on Carteret County Public Schools

Carteret County Public Schools Communications Director Jennifer Perryman said as of Thursday, she was not aware of any county ...

Winston-Salem Journal3h

Forsyth schools: 150,000 teachers, students could feel impact of data breach

"It is not yet clear if the same threat actor is responsible for both incidents. However, PowerSchool shared in a statement ...

PowerSchool breach: Why children are especially vulnerable to data breaches and how to protect them

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

GovInfoSecurity4h

Living in a Fairytale: PowerSchool's Failures Continue

Students, gather round for the sad story of how PowerSchool got schooled not once, but twice. Surprise: Attackers who ...

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