Commissioner Kerry Hatfield says she wants to make sure the province has taken adequate steps to prevent another data breach.

A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to a massive cyberattack on ...

A Massachusetts college student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and ...

Provincial privacy commissioner, Kerry Hatfield will focus her investigation on the Department of Education’s use of ...

Matthew Lane, 19, was charged with cyber extortion conspiracy, cyber extortion and aggravated identity theft, according to ...

In January, PowerSchool, which holds data on around 60 million North American kids and about 10 million teachers, disclosed a ...

PowerSchool said that in late December ... has confirmed suffering a cyberattack resulting in the theft of sensitive student and teacher information. Furthermore, the company decided to pay ...

One of the biggest unknowns about the PowerSchool cyberattack is who was responsible. The company has been in communication with the hacker but has refused to reveal their identity, if known.

PowerSchool is a top education software platform with over 17,000 customers spanning 90 countries, and supporting over 50 million students. A cyberattack in December of 2024 led to the personal ...