HackingTechnologyInformationStolen CredentialsData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MediumContained

PowerSchool

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 28, 2024

Filed

Jan 28, 2025

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

16 filings

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for PowerSchool →4 incidents on file

PowerSchool disclosed a cybersecurity incident on December 28, 2024, involving unauthorized exfiltration of personal information from its Student Information System (SIS) via the PowerSource customer support portal. Affected data included names, contact info, DOB, SSNs, and limited medical alert info. PowerSchool engaged forensic experts and offered two years of complimentary identity protection and credit monitoring to affected students and educators.

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Rhode Island clock✓ RI AG ≤45d4 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 31 days

Dec 28, 2024

Discovered

Jan 28, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

14 wks faster

This filing is one of 16 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Rhode Island State AGbd_4d767e3e82562c8a2025-01-28Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c4d3f9a3c90f6a942025-01-28Verified
Indiana State AGbd_0eb42dfe74b34b8f2025-01-29 · +1dVerified
Nebraska State AGbd_299c4d0f821683532025-01-29 · +1dVerified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 1d gap

Delaware State AGbd_b45dd6445b4bef1a2025-01-29 · +1dVerified
Montana State AGbd_14ac2c628ad65a742025-01-27 · +1dCandidate
Iowa State AGbd_2390e896c65d5b5f2025-01-27 · +1dVerified
Maine State AGbd_438ff508f653f09d2025-01-27 · +1dVerified
Vermont State AGbd_44f09dcd18ee4d0b2025-01-27 · +1dVerified
Idaho State AGbd_56171406702909c22025-01-27 · +1dVerified

Showing first 10 of 15 linked disclosures.

Name: PowerSchool
norm: powerschool
Domain: registration.powerschool.com

Name: PowerSchool
norm: powerschool
Domain: registration.powerschool.com
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Dec 28, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Engaged cybersecurity response protocols
Mobilized senior leadership and third-party cybersecurity experts to conduct a forensic investigation
Offering two years of complimentary identity protection services
Offering two years of complimentary credit monitoring services
Changes made: Offering two years of complimentary identity protection services
Offering two years of complimentary credit monitoring services
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(31 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: RI AG ≤45d
Discovery-date grounding: unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

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Montana State AGJan 27 · first

Iowa State AGJan 27 · first

Maine State AGJan 27 · first

Vermont State AGJan 27 · first

Idaho State AGJan 27 · first

Rhode Island State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Rhode Island State AG+1d · this page

Indiana State AG+2d

Nebraska State AG+2d

Delaware State AG+2d

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 15 — the full spread may be wider.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://riag.ri.gov/media/7371/download
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 28, 2025
Raw hash: 5757bd38aa8a73cf7d21c8a55bc080f4b5ea76e1bcd908402ced7a1aff6660a8

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPowerSchool

Victim entityPowerSchool

Incidentdiscovered Dec 28, 2024

Stated responseEngaged cybersecurity response protocols

ComplianceRI AG ≤45d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceriag.ri.gov