In February, Recorded Future News reported that the breached data in some cases includes student special education status, mental health details, disciplinary notes and parental restraining orders. PowerSchool — which was breached in late December, exposing the sensitive personal data of more than 60 million K-12 students and more than nine million teachers — had previously said the incident had been “contained” and that it had paid a ransom. At the time, PowerSchool expressed confidence the incident was resolved, telling Bleeping Computer the hacker shared a video which purported to show the data being deleted. PowerSchool said it does not believe the hacker has obtained new data because samples of the data being used in the new extortion attempt matches the material taken in December. An education tech giant that was hacked in December said Wednesday that the same threat actor is now attempting to use the stolen data to extort the individual school districts that it works with.
This Cyber News was published on therecord.media. Publication date: Wed, 07 May 2025 21:20:03 +0000