Education software provider PowerSchool said it paid a ransom to hackers who stole data on school students, teachers and others from its system last year, after several school districts reported ...

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being ...

The company said at the time that it had paid the hacker a ransom to allegedly delete the stolen data, but it has repeatedly refused to disclose the sum it paid. Now, Toronto's district school ...

School districts that were affected by a PowerSchool data hack in December are now facing extortion attempts by cyber ...

Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker's ransom to delete the company's banks of stolen student data, at least one school district says it is now being extorted by ...

In a statement Wednesday, PowerSchool confirmed it had paid a ransom to the hacker in hopes of having the data destroyed. The company says the hacker did not honor the deal.

Stolen personal student and teacher information that was supposed to be destroyed after a ransom was paid is now being used to extort individual school districts. In December, a hacker gained access ...