According to sources, Westerville City School (a Education organization in Ohio) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2025-01-10.

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Source 1  |  2025-01-10

Westerville schools hit by data breach of PowerSchool, platform several area districts use

“Students in Westerville City Schools are among victims of a global data breach that saw their personal student information hacked, the school district announced Thursday night in an email to parents. “

“And at least several other central Ohio school districts also use PowerSchool, a software platform that allows districts to manage and store information about class assignments, attendance and more, which reported it was hacked through its PowerSource community-focused customer portal on Dec. 28. “

“The California-based company, whose website says it serves 60 million students at 18,000 school districts and organizations, told its customers that a large amount of student, family and educator data was dowloaded by the hacker, who demanded money to delete the stolen data. PowerSchool paid the money and the data was deleted, but the company is working with the FBI's cybsersecurity operation. “

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