K-12 schools are often the target of cyberattacks because they are historically underfunded when it comes to cybersecurity infrastructure, Choffnes says. Additionally, hackers understand how valuable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several local school districts on the Seacoast and in southern Maine announced they fell victim to a cyberattack, which is part of ...

ATLANTA, GA — More than 70 million students and teachers’ data is at risk including those at Buford city schools and Bartow County after PowerSchool, the biggest cloud-based education software ...

Memphis-Shelby County Schools (MSCS) is suing PowerSchool, a student information system provider, for a data breach affecting nearly 500,000 current and former students and over 23,000 staff. The ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Several school districts around Michigan are working with software company PowerSchool to assess the extent of a cybersecurity breach the company said happened last month. In ...

The hack of a company that helps schools track tens of millions of students appears to be the largest breach of American children’s personal information to date, school officials and cybersecurity ...

ATLANTA — A widely-used school administrative software platform hacked in December is used by 60 Georgia districts covering more than 230,000 students, a Georgia Department of Education map shows. The ...

Several local school districts on the Seacoast and in southern Maine announced they fell victim to a cyberattack, which is part of a nationwide breach of data stored in the cloud-based software ...