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Penncrest superintendent addresses PowerSchool cybersecurity incident; district awaiting investigation results

2136975 · January 13, 2025
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Superintendent told the board the district's student data vendor PowerSchool experienced a breach via the vendor's support portal; the district is coordinating with law enforcement and CrowdStrike, and has advised families to expect official district communications only.

Superintendent Ford told the board on Jan. 13 that the district’s student information vendor, PowerSchool, experienced a cybersecurity breach that affected PowerSchool’s support portal (identified in district remarks as “PowerSource”), and that the incident was not a direct breach of the district’s own servers.

“We were made aware late in the week,” the superintendent said, explaining that…

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