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Started poking at this PowerSchool breach a bit more. Constella Intelligence finds a shocking number of infostealer infections (some quite recent) from people w/ powerschool.com email addresses.

Meanwhile, this breach is likely to involve quite a bit of very detailed information gleaned from their users (students). Last year, PowerSchool was hit by two class action lawsuits that alleged "the defendant companies, through persistent digital surveillance, harvest vast troves of sensitive information from children and their families without their knowledge or consent. The companies are alleged to use that information for commercial purposes in violation of families’ privacy, property, and consumer rights."

"The named plaintiffs are the parents of students who have used these platforms, on behalf of themselves and their children. The parents argue that, simply by sending their children to school as the law requires, they do not surrender their rights to know what information private companies are taking from their children and how it will be used—and to decide whether to agree to that collection and use."

https://edtech.law/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/complaint-powerschool.pdf

https://edtech.law/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/complaint-ixl.pdf