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Superintendent reports PowerSchool data breach; district notifies families and awaits vendor remediation
Summary
Pittsfield Public Schools officials told the School Committee Jan. 8 that a global data breach at PowerSchool exposed student and staff directory fields and that the district has begun family and staff notifications; PowerSchool has said it will offer identity protection for affected minors.
Superintendent Curtis told the School Committee that PowerSchool — a widely used student information system — experienced a global breach that allowed an unauthorized user to export fields labeled “student” and “teacher” from PowerSchool servers.
The district’s initial analysis showed the breach allowed export of directory fields such as home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses; the superintendent said the breach did not include passwords. Curtis said PowerSchool informed…
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