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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 PII 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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