HackingEducationTechnologyEducationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)MinorMediumContained

PowerSchool

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 28, 2024

Filed

Jan 27, 2025

To disclose

4 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

17 filings

Confidence

64%

Full breach record for PowerSchool →3 incidents on file

PowerSchool Group LLC disclosed a cybersecurity incident where unauthorized exfiltration of personal information occurred from its Student Information System environments via the PowerSource support portal. The breach window is December 19-28, 2024, with discovery on December 28, 2024. Affected data includes names, contact info, dates of birth, SSNs, and limited medical alerts for students and educators. PowerSchool engaged third-party experts and is offering identity protection and credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 9 days

discovery → filing · 4 weeks / 30 days

Dec 19, 2024

Begins

Dec 28, 2024

Discovered

Jan 27, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 17 filings about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

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Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_14ac2c628ad65a742025-01-27Candidate
Iowa State AGbd_2390e896c65d5b5f2025-01-27Verified
Maine State AGbd_438ff508f653f09d2025-01-27Verified
Vermont State AGbd_44f09dcd18ee4d0b2025-01-27Verified

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Rhode Island State AGbd_08a3eff3d08020212025-01-28 · +1dVerified
Rhode Island State AGbd_4d767e3e82562c8a2025-01-28 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_c4d3f9a3c90f6a942025-01-28 · +1dVerified
Indiana State AGbd_0eb42dfe74b34b8f2025-01-29 · +2dVerified
Nebraska State AGbd_299c4d0f821683532025-01-29 · +2dVerified
Delaware State AGbd_b45dd6445b4bef1a2025-01-29 · +2dVerified

Showing first 10 of 16 linked disclosures.

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

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

Discovered: Dec 28, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 19, 2024 – Dec 28, 2024
Undetected for: 9 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: —
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDHealth (basic)Minor
Data elements: Social Security numberDate of birth
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Threat actor: External

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 to students and educators
Offering two years of complimentary credit monitoring services to adult students and educators
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 4 weeks(30 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

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

California State AGJan 27 · first · this page

Rhode Island State AG+1d

Massachusetts State AG+1d

Indiana State AG+2d

Nebraska State AG+2d

Delaware State AG+2d

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 16 — 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://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-597863
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 27, 2025
Raw hash: f856a89485b2c4ce680c77e0c15674a8101d5d5bfe9c1e0efcce8b97814537f4

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityPowerSchool

Victim entityPowerSchool

Incidentdiscovered Dec 28, 2024

Stated responseEngaged cybersecurity response protocols

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceoag.ca.gov