Published on: 2025-06-23 17:42:53
PowerSchool has published a long-awaited CrowdStrike investigation into its massive December 2024 data breach, which determined that the company was previously hacked over 4 months earlier, in August, and then again in September. PowerSchool is a cloud-based K-12 software provider serving over 60 million students and 18,000 customers worldwide, offering enrollment, communication, attendance, staff management, learning, analytics, and finance solutions. In December, the company announced that h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 20:25:00
We’re only a few months into 2025, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool is on track to be one of the biggest education data breaches in recent years. PowerSchool, which provides K-12 software to more than 18,000 schools to support some 60 million students across North America, first disclosed the data breach in early January 2025. The California-based company, which Bain Capital acquired for $5.6 billion, said an unknown hacker used a single compromised credential to breach its
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A hacker compromised the U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool months before its ‘massive’ data breach in December, according to a now-published forensic report into the incident conducted by U.S. cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. In a letter sent to affected customers last week, seen by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirmed that an investigation into the incident has revealed that its network “experienced unauthorized activity prior to December,” which CrowdStrike dated back to at least August 2024. PowerS
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