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District notifies families after PowerSchool vendor breach exposed two decades of records
Summary
Superintendent and IT staff told the board that a maintenance account compromise at PowerSchool led to extraction of student and staff directory data and some PII; the district notified parents and is coordinating with state cyber teams.
District technology staff and Superintendent Thomas told the board that PowerSchool — the district’s student information system vendor — experienced a breach affecting a maintenance account that exists on many PowerSchool instances. The district was notified by PowerSchool on Jan. 6 and subsequently found that data were taken beginning Dec. 22, the administration said.
Chief information staff said the extracted data…
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