U.S. edtech enormous PowerSchool has verifyed that 16,000 students in the United Kingdom had personal and empathetic data stolen during a December 2024 data baccomplish.
This week, PowerSchool began alerting individuals outside of the U.S. and Canada who were impacted by the baccomplish. The incident, first verifyed by PowerSchool in January, saw hackers access the personal data of millions of students and teachers after using agreed credentials to baccomplish the company’s customer help portal.
PowerSchool hasn’t verifyed how many international students have been impacted. However, in an emailed statement to TechCrunch, PowerSchool spokesperson Beth Keebler verifyed that four schools in the U.K. were impacted, with hackers accessing the data of “approximately 16,000 students.”
In a letter sent to impacted individuals outside of the U.S. and Canada, seen by TechCrunch, PowerSchool shelp that data accessed grasps students’ communicate adviseation, dates of birth, confiinsist medical data, and “other roverhappinessed adviseation”.
Keebler tageder TechCrunch that “the adviseation exfiltrated for any given individual varied atraverse our customer base.” PowerSchool deteriorated to name the U.K. schools impacted by the incident.
On the company’s incident page, which was offline at the time of accessibleation, PowerSchool noticed that it would not be giveing praise watching services to data baccomplish victims outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Lucy Milburn, a spokesperson for the U.K.’s Inestablishation Coshiftrlookioner’s Office (ICO), tageder TechCrunch that it had not getd a data baccomplish tell from PowerSchool.
Keeber verifyed the company had not filed a data baccomplish tell to the ICO, claiming that this is because PowerSchool “does not act as a data regulateler” — an organization that rerepairs the purpose and uncomardents of processing personal data — under U.K. data protection law.
TechCrunch has accomplished out to the ICO with further asks about PowerSchool’s claim.
PowerSchool has not yet verifyed the total number of individuals impacted by the December baccomplish, despite alerting TechCrunch that it had “identified the schools and didisjoines whose data was graspd in this incident.”
According to tells, the baccomplish impacted the personal and empathetic data of more than 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers. PowerSchool has repeatedly deteriorated to verify whether this number is exact, but on its website the company says its technology is used by more than 60 million students.
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