As you might have read, PowerSchool admitted to have paid criminals that broke into their systems for essentially a promise to have the stolen data deleted. Ethical questions aside, it is our believe, that this will have negative long term consequences for the entire school tech industry. One should expect the cost of cybersecurity insurances to increase, the incentive to hack school systems becoming bigger and the criminals getting well funded to launch more sophisticated attacks.
Since the beginning of this year, our software infrastructure has been relentlessly poked at to discover vulnerabilities. We can only suspect that the events following the PowerSchool incident have incentivized attacks on other school systems, including PushCoin. We ask that school administrators remain extremely careful with handling their security credentials, use security keys to login, never share passwords via email or phone and report any suspicious requests to their IT teams.