Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. PowerSchool said on Dec. 28, it became aware of a "potential cybersecurity incident" that involved unauthorized access to certain PowerSchool SIS information.

In an FAQ obtained by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirms it negotiated with the threat actors responsible for the breach.

Schools across the US and Canada are warning parents that a data breach may have leaked information for students and employees. The K-12 operations platform PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,

A spokesperson for the company said an "unauthorized actor" accessed and stole sensitive customer information.

In 2023, more than 350 million were impacted by data breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, a national identity crime nonprofit. Personal information taken in data breaches can be used to make purchases, obtain fraudulent loans and take over social media accounts.

Schools nationally have been hit by the data breach, with news outlets from Kansas to Maine reporting this week on local districts affected.

New Trier said the data that was accessed included names and school ID numbers. No current students' Social Security numbers were accessed, but some former students' were.

School officials learned of the “potential cybersecurity incident” on Tuesday, Needham Public Schools Superintendent Dan Gutekanst said in a statement.

The sensitive data of millions of American adults and children have been compromised after hackers targeted California-based education software company PowerSchool, the company confirmed this week. The breach happened at the end of December,