PowerSchool, a popular online portal used by many New York school districts to manage student registration, grading, attendance and more, was hit by a data breach in December that saw the unauthorized release of some student information.

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PowerSchool, a software provider popular at K-12 schools, was the target of a data breach in late December that affected many districts in the U.S. and in other countries, according to the company and several impacted schools.

The data breach was announced last week by PowerSchool, a student information system used by more than 70% of school districts across the country and serving more than 60 million students and teachers.

All public schools that use or have used PowerSchool’s student information system were affected “to some degree” by last month’s data breach. Who exactly was affected and what data was exposed is still unclear.

Officials from the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell told the school community last week the school was impacted by last month’s data breach of a third-party company, the same day

The Massapequa, Smithtown and Uniondale school districts, as well as Nassau BOCES, were swept up in the PowerSchool breach, officials said.

A cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to some PowerSchool data is affecting Ridgefield Public Schools along with school districts nationwide.

Council Bluffs Community Schools confirmed that their district was hit by a cyber security attack. A new university proposed by the Chinese billionaire founder of Fuyao Glass Industry Group, the company featured in the Oscar-winning 2019 documentary American Factory,