Schools across the US and Canada are warning parents that a data breach may have leaked information for students and employees. The K-12 operations platform PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,

Indianapolis Public Schools' student information and employee Social Security details were leaked this week as part of a nationwide cybersecurity breach affecting school districts that use PowerSchool information management software.

Area school districts might have been impacted by the cyberattack of a nationwide education software cloud-based platform called PowerSchool, used to store sensitive student data.

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

The personal information of 21,000 students Folsom Cordova Unified School District may have been stolen in a recent data breach.

Westerville City Schools confirmed personal student info was accessed in PowerSchool breach. Unclear if several more central Ohio districts affected.

State law requires school districts in Connecticut to notify parents and staff of a data breach within 48 hours. However, PowerSchool didn't notify districts in the state of the Dec. 28 attack until Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, school officials have said.

PowerSchool is scrambling to recover and protect student data after a hacker breached their system in mid-December-- including one district in West Michigan.

New Trier said the data that was accessed included names and school ID numbers. No current students' Social Security numbers were accessed, but some former students' were.

PowerSchool is confirming a data breach impacted North Dakota student information, such as home addresses and Social Security numbers.

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.