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

A threat actor has contacted multiple school districts demanding payments related to student and staff data stolen in a December breach.

On Wednesday, several school and NCDPI employees across North Carolina received messages from threat actors claiming to have ...

At least three school boards in Canada are reporting having been contacted for ransom following the PowerSchool data breach in December 2024.

Canada's largest school board and others across North America have received ransom demands connected to the massive ...

School districts that were affected by a PowerSchool data hack in December are now facing extortion attempts by cyber ...

The North Carolina district learned earlier this year that a data breach of the software company PowerSchool impacted an ...

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

PowerSchool has ... informed us that an unauthorized user attempted to contact multiple school districts,” says PDSB ...

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.

PowerSchool is warning that the hacker behind its December cyberattack is now individually extorting schools, threatening to release the previously stolen student and teacher data if a ransom is not ...