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What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach


The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions

PowerSchool, which provides K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support some 60 million students in the United States, confirmed the breach in early January. PowerSchool told customers it would share an incident report from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which the company hired to investigate the breach, on January 17. Early reports said the company received video proof, but PowerSchool wouldn’t confirm or deny when asked by TechCrunch.

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