More districts are expected to follow less than a year after a hacker accessed 60 million students' personal information ...

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 ...

NY Attorney General Letitia James secures a $5.1 million settlement with Illuminate Education after a data breach.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued education technology provider PowerSchool after a data breach last year exposed the personal information of more than 880,000 Texas students and teachers. The ...