School officials learned of the “potential cybersecurity incident” on Tuesday, Needham Public Schools Superintendent Dan Gutekanst said in a statement.

Sensitive data about students, families, and educators were exposed in the PowerSchool data breach, officials warn. The post Multiple Mass. school districts impacted by national data breach appeared first on Boston.

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.

PowerSchool, a major education software company, announced a security breach on Tuesday, possibly affecting schools across the nation with data leaks.

Several central Ohio school districts have confirmed student, family and educator data may have been accessed in a data breach of a popular student information software. PowerSchool is a student information system that can be used by school districts to organize student data,