Students in the Haines school district, and their parents, are among the millions nationwide who were caught up in a data breach of educational technology provider PowerSchool. 

The company warned school districts across the country last week that sensitive information had been exposed by hackers in December and later confirmed for customers that it paid a ransom for the destruction of the stolen data. 

PowerSchool, a California based company, is the largest cloud-based education software…

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