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PowerSchool breach hits tens of millions of students
Hackers used a stolen credential to export student and teacher data from PowerSchool's support portal; the attacker claimed 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers.
- Organisation
- PowerSchool
- Disclosed
- 28 December 2024
- Affected
- 71,900,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Names, addresses, SSNs, medical and grades data
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Tom's Guide ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “PowerSchool breach hits tens of millions of students”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 28 Dec 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-12-28-powerschool-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Tom's Guide, https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/powerschool-cyberattack-may-have-compromised-the-data-of-more-than-70-million-students-and-teachers-what-to-do-now.
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