Education software giant PowerSchool has confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident that allowed a threat actor to steal the personal information

PowerSchool hack exposes student, teacher data from K-12 districts

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2025-01-09 14:30:05

Education software giant PowerSchool has confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident that allowed a threat actor to steal the personal information of students and teachers from school districts using its PowerSchool SIS platform.

PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts that supports over 60 million students and over 18,000 customers worldwide. The company offers a full range of services to help school districts operate, including platforms for enrollment, communication, attendance, staff management, learning systems, analytics, and finance.

While the company's products are mostly known by school districts and their staff, PowerSchool also operates Naviance, a platform used by many K-12 districts in the US to offer personalized college, career, and life readiness planning tools to students.

In a cybersecurity incident notification sent to customers Tuesday afternoon and obtained by BleepingComputer, PowerSchool says they first became aware of the breach on December 28, 2024, after PowerSchool SIS customer information was stolen through its PowerSource customer support platform.