An educational software provider has agreed to pay $5.1 million after exposing the personal data of millions of students, including 1.7 million in New York alone. The settlement follows a multistate ...

A multistate agreement between New York, California, Connecticut and Illuminate Education reinforces growing expectations ...

No program that vets ed tech for student privacy would be complete without considering federal laws, training, monitoring and more. While many educational software providers offer students helpful and ...

Tech giant Google is unlawfully collecting and selling data on K-12 students' web activities, a pair of California families allege in a federal lawsuit filed this week. North Carolina public schools ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of Memphis Shelby County Schools against PowerSchool, a K-12 software provider the school district was using, after a data breach leaked “highly ...

ARTICLE UPDATE 1/31/25: PowerSchool failed to take basic precautions to protect students’ data, leading to the largest breach of American children’s personal information to date, according to a ...

The personal data of students and staff at several dozen Vermont school districts may have been compromised in a nationwide data breach of a student information system, according to state education ...

FOR CREDIT FREEZING SERVICES FOR THEIR STUDENTS. HOW MANY KIDS MONITOR THEIR CREDIT SCORE OR THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY? NOBODY DOES. PARENTS DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT ...

A K-12 software provider that runs one of the most commonly used student information systems in U.S. schools was hit by a cyberattack that could have exposed the personal information of millions of ...

San Diego Unified School District officials said Friday that hackers may have accessed some students’ social security numbers and medical conditions in a data breach. Districts across the country use ...

North American school software provider PowerSchool has reportedly paid a ransom to prevent attackers from releasing stolen data of students and teachers. A message to parents by the Howard-Suamico ...