PowerSchool data breach affected 16,000 students in the UK

US AdTEC Giant PowerSscale has confirmed that personal and sensitive data of 16,000 students in the UK was stolen during the December 2024 data violation.

This week, PowerScoules began notifying people outside the United States and Canada who were attacked by the violation. Event, The first January confirmed by PowerScolHackers access the company’s customer support portal after using compromised credentials for violating a few million students and teachers’ personal data.

PowerScol did not confirm how many international students were affected. However, in an emailed statement to TechCrunch, PowerScul’s spokesman Beth Kebla confirmed that four schools in the UK were damaged, hackers accessed the data of “about 16,000 students”.

In a letter sent by TechCrunch, PowerSscale sent to people outside the United States and Canada said that the data accessed includes students’ contact information, date of birth, limited medical data and “other related data”.

Kebella told TechCrunch that “information for anyone given is varied across the customer base of our customer.” PowerScouls have refused to name UK schools affected by this incident.

On the company Pages of eventsWhich was offline at the time of the publication, PowerScol noted that it would not provide credit monitoring services for victims of data violations outside the United States and Canada.

Lucy Millburn, a spokesman for the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), told TechCrunch that it did not receive any data violations from PowerScol.

Kiber confirmed that the company did not file a data violation report to the ICO, claiming that it was “PowerScourse” not as a data controller ” – a company that determines the purpose and means of processing personal data – under the UK Data Protection Act.

TechCrunch has reached the ICO with further questions about PowerScol’s claim.

Despite TechCrunch, the total number of the victims of the PowerScul December in December has not yet confirmed that it has “identified schools and districts whose information was involved in the incident.”

Accordingly ReportThe violation influenced the personal and sensitive data of more than 62 million students and 9.5 million teachers. PowerScol has repeatedly refused to confirm whether this number is correct, but on its website, the company says its technology uses more than a million5 million students.

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