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.

Learn more about the massive breach that saw Social Security numbers stolen by more than 60 million students and teachers.

Schools across the US and Canada are warning parents that a data breach may have leaked information for students and employees. The K-12 operations platform PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,

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 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.

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,

The districts are customers of PowerSchool, a cloud-based software company, which says it experienced a cybersecurity incident on Dec. 28.

CBS 42's Maddie McQueen reports.