The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions

PowerSchool, a company that assists schools in keeping track of tens of millions of students, has fallen victim to the largest breach of American children’s personal information. Cyberattacks against schools have become more and more common in recent years,

Families across the area are receiving notifications about how to protect themselves after a data breach involving the PowerSchool system, which contains personal information for hundreds of thousands of students.