Several school districts in Massachusetts were affected by the national data breach of the software company PowerSchool.

Schools across the US and Canada are warning parents that a data breach may have leaked information for students and employees. The K-12 operations platform PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,

A data breach at one of the largest student information systems in the world has potentially exposed the personal information of millions of students and teachers, including in Northeast Ohio.

In an FAQ obtained by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirms it negotiated with the threat actors responsible for the breach.

Westerville City Schools confirmed personal student info was accessed in PowerSchool breach. Unclear if several more central Ohio districts affected.

Area school districts might have been impacted by the cyberattack of a nationwide education software cloud-based platform called PowerSchool, used to store sensitive student data.

PowerSchool, an international provider of education administration software, suffered a cybersecurity incident in December that may have impacted Botetourt County Public Schools data, BCPS said on Thursday.

Several central Ohio school districts have confirmed student, family and educator data may have been accessed in a data breach of a popular student information software. PowerSchool is a student information system that can be used by school districts to organize student data,

The nationwide PowerSchool data breach has left many districts worried about leaked student information. However, the NDITD is taking an extra step to ensure the security of the school districts’ data.

A spokesperson for the company said an "unauthorized actor" accessed and stole sensitive customer information.

School officials learned of the “potential cybersecurity incident” on Tuesday, Needham Public Schools Superintendent Dan Gutekanst said in a statement.