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November 20, 2025
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Ontario and Alberta privacy commissioners release investigation findings into PowerSchool breach affecting school boards and other educational bodies

TORONTO, ON (November 18, 2025) — Ontario and Alberta information and privacy commissioners have released the findings of their investigations into a massive privacy breach involving PowerSchool education technology (edtech) used by schools in their respective provinces. The incident, which affected millions of Canadians across the country, highlights the importance for educational bodies, including school boards, […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, News
November 03, 2025
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Penn hacker claims to have stolen 1.2 million donor records in data breach

Bleeping Computer reports: A hacker has taken responsibility for last week’s University of Pennsylvania “We got hacked” email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and internal documents. On Friday, University of Pennsylvania alumni and students began receiving multiple offensive emails from Penn.edu addresses claiming the university […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, Vendor News, Vulnerabilities
October 14, 2025
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Harvard investigating breach linked to Oracle zero-day exploit

Bleeping Computer reports: Harvard University is investigating a data breach after the Clop ransomware gang listed the school on its data leak site, saying the alleged breach was likely caused by a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite servers. “Harvard is aware of reports that data associated with the University has been obtained […]

Education Sector, Commentaries and Analyses, Data Breach News
September 15, 2025
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Watchdog warns of ‘insider threat’ of students launching cyberattacks on their schools

Public Technology reports: The UK’s data-protection watchdog has warned of a growing trend of cyberattacks on schools being perpetrated by pupils. The Information Commissioner’s Office recently analysed the details of 215 data breaches that took place across the education sector between January 2022 and August 2024 and were classified as “insider attacks”. Almost three in […]

Vendor News, Data Breach News, Education Sector
August 10, 2025
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Kokomo24/7, a Vendor for the Los Angeles Unified School District Hit by a Cyber Attack, Network Files Likely Compromised

TechNadu reports: A vendor that serves the Los Angeles Unified School District, Kokomo24/7, has notified authorities about a network file exposure on its internal systems and data storage environment. Investigators determined that the suspicious activity discovered on December 11, 2024, allowed cybercriminals to access sensitive personal information. Since Kokomo24/7 is a vendor for the Los Angeles Unified […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, Vendor News
June 13, 2025
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School Districts Unaware BoardDocs Software Published Their Private Files

Company said it notified customers nationwide after a tech glitch exposed confidential data, but multiple districts said they knew nothing about it. The 74 reports that although Diligent Corporation claims they notified all BoardDocs clients of a recently discovered data leak, many school districts had no awareness of any incident until The 74 contacted them. […]

Education Sector, Data Breach News, Malware Ransomware
May 22, 2025
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Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data

The Register reports: Scotland’s West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the intrusion earlier this month. The local authority, governing a region bordering Edinburgh, originally said that there was no evidence to suggest that data had been taken when it first […]

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May 21, 2025
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Massachusetts student pleads guilty to hacking and extorting PowerSchool and an unnamed telecom

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced yesterday that  Matthew D. Lane, 19, a student at Assumption University in Worcester, Mass., was charged and has agreed to plead guilty in connection with hacking into the computer networks of two U.S.-based companies and extorting the companies for ransoms. The two companies were not named in the Information […]

Legal News, Data Breach News, Education Sector
March 21, 2025
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$9.95M National Student Clearinghouse data breach class action settlement

Top Class Actions reports: National Student Clearinghouse agreed to a $9.95 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims that it failed to protect consumers from a 2023 MOVEit data breach. The National Student Clearinghouse settlement benefits individuals whose Social Security numbers were included in the files affected by the MOVEit data breach between May […]