The edtech giant is notifying state attorneys general about the breach but won’t say how many individuals have been affected

A notification published on the Maine Attorney General's Office website indicates more than 33,000 people living in the state were affected by the PowerSchool data breach.An attorney filed the notification on behalf of PowerSchool,

Education software giant PowerSchool has started notifying individuals in the U.S. and Canada whose personal data was exposed in a late December 2024 cyberattack.

If you're a student or teacher — or were one in the past few decades — you may soon be getting a head's up that your personal information was accessed as part of the widespread PowerSchool cyber breach that recently hit Canadian school boards.

Over 60 million students & teachers data may have been stolen in PowerSchool breach

Professor noted the need for continued pushes for multi-factor authentication for educational services that require such extensive identifying information.

PowerSchool, a widely used platform among districts in western Washington, including Seattle and Everett, confirmed the breach.