PowerSchool hack exposes 15,666 personal data records at three Seoul international schools
SpilloverSpillover from the PowerSchool incident · View original incident →A hack of PowerSchool exposed a total of 15,666 personal data records from three international schools in Seoul. The leaked information included names, contact details, addresses, graduation years and health-related information. The schools continue to use the same school management system following the incident.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Three international schools in Seoul
- Original incident
- PowerSchool hack leaks student and staff personal data
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 15,666 personal data records
- Cause / method
- Hack of school management system provider PowerSchool
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataNamePhone numberAddressHealth & medical data
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organisation’s official website or app.
- If you’ve suffered harm, report it. Call 118 (no area code) for privacy violations, contact the police for financial losses, and apply for dispute mediation to seek compensation.Personal Information Infringement Report Centre ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
Timeline
- It became known that a PowerSchool hack had exposed 15,666 personal data records from three international schools in Seoul.
- It was again reported that the affected schools continued to use the same school management system following the hack.
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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