Union County Public Schools hit by student information system breach
SpilloverSpillover from the PowerSchool incident · View original incident →Union County Public Schools was affected by a data breach of North Carolina's student information system. The damage stemmed from the PowerSchool incident, and the specific data leaked and its scale have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Union County Public Schools
- Original incident
- PowerSchool hack leaks student and staff personal data
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- PowerSchool student information system data breach
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- It emerged that Union County Public Schools had been affected by the North Carolina student information system data breach.
Original incident
This is spillover from the PowerSchool incident.
PowerSchool hack leaks student and staff personal data
62mImpact: Leak of student and staff personal data; the attacker claimed to have stolen data on 62 million students
Education technology company PowerSchool was hacked, leaking personal data of students and staff at North American schools. The attacker claimed to have stolen data on 62 million students, and PowerSchool paid the hacker, but school districts were later hit with further extortion demands. A US university student involved in the case pleaded guilty and was later sentenced to federal prison.
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