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Region 15: PowerSchool vendor breach exposed demographic fields; district says vendor responsible for security
Summary
Superintendent Smith told the Region 15 board that a national PowerSchool data‑hosting vendor breach exposed demographic fields for student records the vendor hosts, and that PowerSchool has notified schools, identified and mitigated the incident and reported data destruction.
Superintendent Smith told the Region 15 Board of Education on Jan. 3 that the district was notified by vendor PowerSchool of a national data breach affecting hosted student records. "Once they told us where to look, we found where the person would need access, and it took less than 5 seconds to pull, like, 1, 5 years worth of data," Smith said.
Smith explained that the data in question were hosted by the vendor under a district contract; while the district provides and controls the data, PowerSchool…
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