Hartley LLP Appointed to PowerSchool Data Breach Leadership

Hartley LLP Appointed to PowerSchool Data Breach Leadership

Hartley LLP was appointed to the Plaintiffs Steering Committee by Judge Benitez in the Southern District of California in this sprawling data breach case on behalf of tens of millions of individuals. PowerSchool provides cloud-based software for K-12 education in the United States. In that role, it collects highly sensitive and confidential PII (personal identifiable information) including the health, parent/guardian phone numbers and tax ID information of over 60 million students, parents, and school faculty worldwide. In December 2024, PowerSchool permitted that PII to be stolen through a data breach that affected not only PowerSchool’s subscribers but also persons who had no relationship with PowerSchool and never consented to it collecting and storing their PII. Most of the accessed PII included information pertaining to students under the age of 18.