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One of the infiltrators was at risk in the giant United States months before the “huge” data breach in December Forensic report published now In the incident by Crowdstrike.
In a letter sent to the affected customers last week, which was witnessed by Techcrunch, PowerSchool confirmed that an investigation into the accident had revealed that its network “witnessed an unauthorized activity before December”, which dates back to no less than August 2024.
Powerschool previously said that she had discovered unauthorized access to its systems between December 19 until the settlement was discovered on December 28, 2024.
In its report, Crowdstrike said that one of the infiltrators who use the same support data used in December breach to access the PowerSchool network between August 16, 2024 and September 17, 2024. Accreditation data was used to access Powersool Powersource, the same customer support portal in December to reach PowerSchool Company.
PowerSource “allows for a support technician who has adequate permissions to access the SIS database counterparts for maintenance purposes,” according to Crowdstrike.
Crowdstrike said that he did not find “sufficient evidence to raise this activity to the representative of the threat responsible for the activity in December 2024”, because the PowerSchool Register data “is no longer enough.” However, the results of the Croldstrike indicate that the December violation of PowerSchool would have been prevented if pronounced accreditation data was changed soon.
When Techcrunch on Monday, a spokesperson for PowerSchool Beth Keepler refused to determine whether the company was aware of this previous access to its network before the release of a Crowdstrike report.
There are still many questions about PowerSchoolLike the total number of affected individuals. PowerSchool has repeatedly refused to provide an accurate number Reports He suggested that personal information was accessed for more than 60 million students.