In an FAQ obtained by TechCrunch, PowerSchool confirms it negotiated with the threat actors responsible for the breach.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Some of the local Indiana schools, like Brownsburg and Carmel Clay Schools, had notified their families of the breach and whether data was leaked early Wednesday afternoon.

School districts informed families the data breach included addresses, grade levels, phone numbers, ethnicity, student alerts and emergency contacts.

The breach is the latest in a series of high-profile cybersecurity incidents affecting K-12 schools, which are a top target of hackers and are uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Three school districts in the greater Gardner area use the PowerSchool Student Information System. Here's what they know about the data breach.

PowerSchool sent out a round of emails to certain school districts announcing that the company had experienced a data breach.

A number of schools in Connecticut have been affected by a widespread cybersecurity breach involving the PowerSchool Student Information System used by districts across the country and internationally.

Both the Greenfield-Central Community School Corp. and New Palestine Community Schools say they are part of a nationwide cybersecurity breach associated with one of their platforms.

School officials learned of the “potential cybersecurity incident” on Tuesday, Needham Public Schools Superintendent Dan Gutekanst said in a statement.

New Trier said the data that was accessed included names and school ID numbers. No current students' Social Security numbers were accessed, but some former students' were.