In an FAQ obtained by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirms it negotiated with the threat actors responsible for the breach.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Some of the local Indiana schools, like Brownsburg and Carmel Clay Schools, had notified their families of the breach and whether data was leaked early Wednesday afternoon.

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

No Horry County Schools data was “affected or compromised” by a recent nationwide PowerSchool security breach, a district spokesperson said Thursday in a news release. “After an internal district investigation by the HCS Information Technology Department,

School officials learned of the “potential cybersecurity incident” on Tuesday, Needham Public Schools Superintendent Dan Gutekanst said in a statement.

County school superintendents whose teachers and administrators use the PowerSchool student information system to manage data are not happy that it took the company 11 days to report it had

A spokesperson for the company said an "unauthorized actor" accessed and stole sensitive customer information.

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.

The personal data of past and present Prince Edward Island school staff and students may have been stolen in a cyberattack that affected educational institutions across the country.