Massive PowerSchool Data Breach Exposes Over 70 Million Records

Hack compromised sensitive student and teacher data across thousands of K-12 school districts in the U.S. and Canada.

Hackers accessed PowerSchool's system in late December 2024, stealing data from its Student Information System using compromised credentials.
The breach potentially impacted over 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers across 6,500 school districts, including major ones in the U.S. and Canada.
Exposed data includes names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, and limited medical information, though not all individuals had sensitive data compromised.
PowerSchool reportedly paid a ransom to prevent leaked data but has not confirmed this; experts caution against trusting claims of data deletion.
The company is offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity protection services to affected individuals and continues to investigate the breach.