Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memphis-Shelby County Schools has sued PowerSchool for a data breach that, according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District ...

The PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS), student information software used by over 16,000 K-12 schools to manage grades, attendance, and other operations, recently disclosed a major ...

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 ...

Data belonging to an unknown number of Hanover County Public Schools students was stolen in a recent breach of a major education technology provider. Why it matters: Kids aren't immune to identity ...

Matthew Lane pleads guilty to hacking, extorting ransoms Lane used contractor credentials to access PowerSchool's network PowerSchool paid ransom to prevent data leak of millions of students BOSTON, ...

Public school employees across North Carolina received threatening messages from people who said they had access to student and teacher data that was exposed when a contractor was hacked in December, ...

Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years’ worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach. In a letter sent to parents this week, the Toronto District ...

The hack of a company that helps schools track tens of millions of students appears to be the largest breach of American children’s personal information to date, school officials and cybersecurity ...

While students are out for summer break, North Dakota public schools are preparing for a major technology switch, the state says will make it easier for families to keep up with grades and attendance, ...

A Massachusetts college student has pleaded guilty to hacking charges in a case tied to a company that manages data for millions of current and former North Carolina public school students, federal ...