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PowerSchool hack exposes student, teacher data from K-12 districts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/databreaches@lemmy.zip

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Education software giant PowerSchool has confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident that allowed a threat actor to steal the personal information of students and teachers from school districts using its PowerSchool SIS platform.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

PowerSchool is owned by Vista private equity partners.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vista_Equity_Partners#2010%E2%80%932019_2

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I take it they are jerks?

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dunno. I just thought it was interesting. It was at one time owned by Apple, though that was long ago and it has changed hands many times. It made me wonder if the company would have been more security conscious if they were still owned by a tech firm.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The answer is "no", because the market they serve (K12 schools) cares about security, but they don't care enough (or have the budget) to actually pay for it.