January 14, 2025: Hartley LLP filed a negligence case against PowerSchool for a data breach affecting the private information of tens of millions of Americans. 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.
