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Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad


Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen.

The hack, which came to light earlier this month, hit PowerSchool, a Folsom, California firm that provides cloud-based software to some 16,000 K–12 schools worldwide. “This includes students who may have been enrolled only for a short while before transferring out and staff who worked for MPCSD only briefly before leaving for whatever reason,” last week’s notice stated. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.

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