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Burke County Schools: PowerSchool incident affected staff Social Security numbers; credit monitoring offered
Summary
Technology staff told the board PowerSchool confirmed district data was included in a late-December breach; PowerSchool is coordinating credit-monitoring through Experian for impacted persons.
Doctor Edwards told the board that PowerSchool reported a credential compromise affecting its systems in late December and that North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) confirmed Burke County data was involved. "On January 10th, NCDPI confirmed that Burke County student and teacher data was included," Edwards said.
Edwards said the initial NCDPI report listed three student Social Security numbers and other directory data; she reviewed the district’s records and found that student Social Security numbers had been purged from PowerSchool years earlier and that the…
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