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Schools Face an Uphill Battle in Protecting Student Data in the Age of AI
A report from the Consortium for School Networking examines the state of districts' student data privacy practices.
Pennsylvania Teachers' Union Hit With Suit Over Data Breach (1)
The Pennsylvania State Education Association is facing three proposed federal class actions alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of more than 517,000 people that was ...
PowerSchool’s ‘Trust The Hackers’ Response Flunks Cyber Test
After investors took PowerSchool private last June for $5.6 billion, it didn’t take long for a harrowing cyber breach to ...
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The Education Department is Dead — or Is It?
There’s an innate tension between school safety and students’ civil rights. The 74’s Mark Keierleber keeps you up to date on ...
PowerSchool offering identity theft monitoring following cybersecurity incident
Parents of students at Alabama public schools are receiving emails from PowerSchool updating them on a recent cybersecurity incident.
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Ransomware Group Claims Attacks on Ascom, Jaguar Land Rover
The Hellcat ransomware group claims to have stolen tens of gigabytes of data from Ascom and Jaguar Land Rover.
PowerSchool hackers have your kids’ info. These 3 steps can protect you
You may have heard the news about the PowerSchool breach—hackers breaking into a software system that helps schools keep ...
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WLC Director of Technology Nicholas Buroker expresses concern over data breach
Members of the Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School Board are concerned about student information that was released as a ...
Attackers swipe data of 500k+ people from Pennsylvania teachers union
The nonprofit, which represents more than 178,000 education professionals in the US state of Pennsylvania, confirmed data was ...
Half a million teachers hit in major data breach with SSNs, financial data and more exposed — what to do now
Even if you practice perfect cyber hygiene, you can still wake up to find yourself amid a major security crisis resulting ...
PowerSchool’s simple security error was avoidable. You can do better
Late last year, a hacker infiltrated PowerSchool, a software company that offers cloud-based services to K-12 schools. The ...