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District 5 officials say PowerSchool support account was compromised; no malware detected
Summary
The district’s technology director said an unauthorized party accessed customer data in PowerSchool beginning Dec. 19. The state is leading notification and remediation; the district says student Social Security numbers and the parent portal were not stored in its instance.
The School District 5 director of technology told the board on Jan. 13 that an unauthorized party accessed customer data in the PowerSchool student information system and that the event began Dec. 19, according to district officials. "This was not an encryption event," Director of Technology Jenny Garrus said. "There is no ongoing malicious activity in anyone's PowerSchool environment."
Garrus said PowerSchool informed customers that internal support-account credentials were compromised and…
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