The edtech giant is notifying state attorneys general about the breach but won’t say how many individuals have been affected

If you're a student or teacher — or were one in the past few decades — you may soon be getting a head's up that your personal information was accessed as part of the widespread PowerSchool cyber breach that recently hit Canadian school boards.

Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack.

Professor noted the need for continued pushes for multi-factor authentication for educational services that require such extensive identifying information.

A third-party software provider that maintains student and teacher data for school districts across the country disclosed it suffered a data breach earlier this month.

Bleeping Computer on Wednesday also reported that an extortion note the attacker sent to PowerSchool claimed that the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers was swept up in the breach. PowerSchool said it’s offering two years of free credit monitoring to all those affected.

In a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General this week, PowerSchool reported approximately 33,488 Maine residents were affected by the breach. The number of Mainers affected will likely go up. This is only a preliminary filing with the state and PowerSchool is still investigating the breach.

Four decades of student and educator information was stolen from PowerSchool – tens of millions are potentially affected.

TRI-CITIES, Wash. - Software company PowerSchool recently reported a data breach that affects students and educators, which may include those in many school districts in Washington and Oregon.