Four decades of student and educator information was stolen from PowerSchool – tens of millions are potentially affected. January 24, 2025 By Ionut Arghire School districts in the US and Canada say hackers stole all their historical data from a compromised PowerSchool service in a data breach that appears to impact millions of students and educators.PowerSchool, which provides education software and services to more than 16,000 K12 schools and school districts in the US, Canada, and tens of other countries worldwide, informed its customers on January 7 that hackers stole their information from the PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS) service.The attackers accessed the SIS service through the PowerSource customer support portal, stealing the names, contact information, dates of birth, medical information, Social Security numbers, and other information of both students and educators, PowerSchool said in an incident notice.While details on how the incident occurred were not shared
