A third-party software provider that maintains student and teacher data for school districts across the country disclosed it suffered a data breach earlier this month.

In wake of PowerSchool data breach impacting several school districts in Southern Idaho, schools say they are vigilant about protecting student information.

Education technology giant PowerSchool has confirmed a data breach that may have exposed information on millions of schoolchildren, putting them at risk of identity theft. PowerSchool has over 18,000 clients,

A trove of information on current and former students and teachers was accessed during the December cyberattack, sources say

Bleeping Computer on Wednesday also reported that an extortion note the attacker sent to PowerSchool claimed that the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers was swept up in the breach. PowerSchool said it’s offering two years of free credit monitoring to all those affected.

Professor noted the need for continued pushes for multi-factor authentication for educational services that require such extensive identifying information.

One of the latest significant information leaks involves data from PowerSchool, a software provider for thousands of K–12 school districts in the United States and Canada. The incident affected millions of users.

PowerSchool, a widely used platform among districts in western Washington, including Seattle and Everett, confirmed the breach.

PowerSchool says its software stores information of over 62 million K-12 students and teachers across more than 18,000 customers.

PowerSchool says the personal information of students and educators was stolen in a December 2024 data breach.