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What PowerSchool won’t say about its data breach affecting millions of students


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 across North America, confirmed the breach in early January. PowerSchool told customers it would share by mid-January an incident report from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which the company hired to investigate the breach. While PowerSchool won’t give a number, the company’s recent filings with state attorneys general suggest that millions had personal information stolen in the breach.

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