60 Million Students. One Compromised Password.

PowerSchool serves over 60 million students across the U.S. and Canada. Grades, medical info, Social Security numbers — all in one place.

In January, attackers got in using compromised credentials to a support platform. That’s it. One password.

Names, addresses, SSNs, medical information, grades — all potentially exposed. For students and staff.

This is the problem with centralized systems holding sensitive data: one weak link and the whole thing unravels.

You don’t need to be a school district to learn from this. If your organization stores sensitive data, ask yourself: do you actually know where all of it lives? And who has access?

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