Millions Impacted by PowerSchool Data Breach

School districts in the US and Canada say hackers stole all their historical data from a compromised PowerSchool service in a data breach that appears to impact millions of students and educators.

PowerSchool, which provides education software and services to more than 16,000 K12 schools and school districts in the US, Canada, and tens of other countries worldwide, informed its customers on January 7 that hackers stole their information from the PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) service.

The attackers accessed the SIS service through the PowerSource customer support portal, stealing the names, contact information, dates of birth, medical information, Social Security numbers, and other information of both students and educators, PowerSchool said in an incident notice.

While details on how the incident occurred were not shared publicly, PowerSchool previously told its customers that ‘a compromised credential’ was used to access PowerSchool SIS.

“This credential, which was tied to a ...