Education Breached, Futures Exposed

PowerSchool 2024 breach exposed 70M+ K–12 records via stolen creds and no MFA, triggering ransom payment and global investigations.

What happens when the digital system of a school district is compromised? In late 2024, PowerSchool, the backbone of student information systems across K–12 education, suffered one of the largest educational data breaches ever recorded.

Tens of millions of sensitive student and staff records were quietly siphoned off, triggering a months-long nightmare …