The educational software giant said it doesn’t anticipate any of the compromised information “being shared or made public,” as a review of the incident continues.

Several school districts in Massachusetts were affected by the national data breach of the software company PowerSchool.

PowerSchool sent out a round of emails to certain school districts announcing that the company had experienced a data breach.

Personal data from a number of Chicago-area school districts was obtained in a cyberattack targeting PowerSchool, a popular education software company, many districts revealed this week. Burbank School District 11,

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The K-12 software giant that runs the most commonly used student information system in U.S. schools said a data breach could have exposed the personal information of millions of students and teachers.

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