Texas Sues Powerschool – Because Apparently, Common Sense is Optional

Oh joy. More incompetence. Texas is suing PowerSchool after a data breach exposed the personal information of roughly 62 *million* students. Sixty-two MILLION. Let that sink in for a minute. Names, birthdays, addresses…the usual crap you don’t want floating around on the dark web.

Apparently, PowerSchool didn’t bother with basic security measures – like, I dunno, *encrypting* sensitive data? The suit alleges they knew about vulnerabilities and just…ignored them. Fantastic. Just stellar risk management over there. They claim it was a “nation-state actor” but honestly, probably some script kiddie found an open port.

Texas is looking for penalties, damages, and forcing PowerSchool to actually secure their goddamn systems. Good luck with that. These companies usually just pay a fine and keep doing the same shit. They’re hoping you won’t notice they are still using outdated software.

The breach affected schools across multiple states, so expect more lawsuits. And parents? Yeah, monitor your kids’ credit reports for the next decade. Because someone *somewhere* is already planning how to exploit this mess.

Source: Texas Sues PowerSchool After Massive Data Breach Hit 62 Million Students

Speaking of data breaches, I once had to rebuild a server farm after some intern clicked on a link in an email promising free pizza. Free *pizza*. Seriously? You’d think people would learn. But no. They just keep leaving the door open for every idiot with a keyboard. It’s exhausting being the only one who gives a damn.

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