Data Privacy, Cyber Attacks, School Districts

How Schools Should Respond to the PowerSchool Cyberattack

Fisher Phillips on 1/13/2025

The country’s largest provider of cloud-based education software for K-12 schools announced on January 7 that it fell victim to a massive data breach – which may lead to questions about the implications for your school....more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 5, May 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/1/2023

Cyber Resilience Programs Falling Short on Preparing Workers for a Crisis- “At two-thirds of organizations, there is a fear that almost all employees, 95%, will not understand how to recover following a cyberattack.” ...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 4, April 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/25/2023

Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more

Cybersecurity Advisory for K-12 Educational Institutions

Sands Anderson PC on 12/18/2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, recently released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning that cyber...more

The Real Risk of Data Breach And What Schools Can Do To Be Prepared

Franczek P.C. on 9/18/2019

This summer, Pearson notified a handful of Illinois school districts that its AIMSweb 1.0 Platform had experienced a data breach that impacted over 13,000 account holders nationally. ...more

Security Breaches In Schools: 10 Steps To Protect Your Information

Fisher Phillips on 6/6/2019

California’s San Diego Unified School District recently disclosed that it had sustained a data breach when multiple phishing emails from malicious hackers were used to gather login information of staff members throughout the...more