Memphis joins list of school systems suing PowerSchool over data breach
In its lawsuit, Memphis-Shelby County Schools claims that PowerSchool has yet to directly communicate with the students, families and staff whose information was stolen. That’s 485,267 former and current MSCS students plus 23,903 MSCS employees, a fraction of PowerSchool’s estimated 60 million users. (The Daily Memphian file)
PowerSchool said it paid the ransom hackers demanded after they obtained personal information for millions of student and school staff users. But concerns have surfaced that the hackers didn’t delete the data they stole.
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