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The Essex Westford School District has informed families about continued threats from the December 2024 PowerSchool data ...
Nova Scotia education officials say nearly 42,000 students, parents and staff were affected by a data breach covering a number of years in the Cape Breton-Victoria area.
The North Carolina district learned earlier this year that a data breach of the software company PowerSchool impacted an ...
The hackers which struck PowerSchool in 2024 are now reportedly targeting individual schools and extorting them for ransom, ...
A threat actor has contacted multiple school districts demanding payments related to student and staff data stolen in a December breach.
No ransom demands have yet been made to the Near North District School Board following a cyber attack. The Near North ...
As is always the case with these situations, there was a risk that the bad actors would not delete the data they stole,’ ...
Hackers have been contacting some school boards directly to extort them, Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board said in an email to parents.
PowerSchool said its customers had been hit by new extortion demands using data stolen in a previous attack, despite attacker ...
Stolen personal student and teacher information that was supposed to be destroyed after a ransom was paid is now being used to extort individual school districts. In December, a hacker gained access ...
Public school employees and the North Carolina Department of Instruction were targeted by cyber threats this week.
Public school employees around the state received threatening emails asking for money in exchange for deleting the ...