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District notifies community after PowerSchool cybersecurity incident; vendor offering identity protection
Summary
Board was briefed on a multi-district PowerSchool breach; district posted FAQs and links on its website, said PowerSchool is contacting affected individuals and offering identity protection, and staff said monitoring continues and they believe compromised data were destroyed.
District staff told the board the district has posted information about a recent PowerSchool cybersecurity breach and that the vendor has begun notifying affected individuals and offering identity-protection services. The staff update said "PowerSchool is taking the next step and notifying those folks who didn't have information that was included in that link to offer them identity protection," and that the district has posted the most up-to-date vendor guidance on its website.
Board members pressed for scope and technical safeguards. Staff said the breach likely involved credentialed access to backend accounts and that PowerSchool engaged negotiators; staff stated they "feel reasonably confident that the information was destroyed" and that monitoring has not shown public release of the data. The district noted it has implemented additional access controls for high-level accounts and will maintain a public FAQ with updates.
