PowerSchool Cybersecurity Breach: What You Need to Know

This special episode of the K12 Tech Talk Podcast dissects the recent cybersecurity incident involving PowerSchool, a major provider of Student Information Systems (SIS) in the United States. Hosts Josh, Chris, and Mark discuss the details of the breach that saw PowerSchool send notifications to its customers about the possibility of sensitive data exposure.

We discuss the details of the breach that have been released by PowerSchool and discussed by customers on K12TechPro and Reddit (/k12sysadmin) within the first 24 hours.

 

00:00-Introduction

01:04-What happened?

04:10-Who is PowerSchool?

7:30-Data Exfiltration

11:48-How the attack happened

18:54-The attackers were paid to destroy the data

22:41-What should districts do right now?

 

For more information, check out K12TechPro where you can find a special section on the PowerSchool breach with resources you need, including sample letters to families, instructions to download your system logs, and relevant news articles.

https://community.k12techpro.com

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