TEXAS – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against PowerSchool, a California-based provider of cloud-based services for K-12 schools, after an unprecedented data breach exposed the sensitive personal identifying information and protected health information of more than 880,000 Texas school-aged children and teachers, including Houston ISD schools.

According to Paxton, PowerSchool’s software collects, processes, and secures sensitive information that Texas schools require from parents enrolling their children and from their employees.

PowerSchool markets itself as an all-in-one platform for managing student information, enrollment, and other school operations, and promotes its software as meeting “the highest security standards” and offering “state-of-the-art protectio

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