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

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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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[–] 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.