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Longmeadow Public Schools discloses PowerSchool data breach; district to offer credit monitoring
Summary
Superintendent told the School Committee a PowerSchool data export included personally identifiable fields for current staff and students and social security numbers for some former students; the district posted details and is arranging credit monitoring through PowerSchool while attorneys and IT continue the investigation.
Longmeadow Public Schools announced at its Jan. 14 School Committee meeting that a data breach affecting the vendor PowerSchool copied and exported staff and student records, and that the district will work to offer credit monitoring to affected former students.
The superintendent told the committee the district posted a detailed list of the data fields copied from PowerSchool on the district website, notified staff and families, and is working with attorneys and its IT team to press PowerSchool for responsive remediation, including credit monitoring for those affected.
The disclosure matters because the exported fields included names, addresses, dates of…
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