“PowerSchool has assured us that the incident is contained, and there is no evidence of malware or continued unauthorized activity within the system,” said Kettering superintendent Mindy McCarty Stewart and technology officer Chris Merrit in a statement sent to parents.
Schools use PowerSchool software for such things as enrollment, document management, employee records, curriculum and instructional needs.
Troy Schools said in a letter to parents that while the district has been notified it is affected by the data breach, the district has “proactively taken steps to exclude Social Security numbers from our database” in PowerSchool. The information that was included in the breach includes information like phone numbers, names and addresses.
Kettering Schools said it doesn’t store students’ social security numbers using PowerSchool, but found some staff social security numbers might have been breached.
“PowerSchool will be providing credit monitoring to affected adults, who will be notified if their data was impacted,” Kettering said in the statement.
Centerville Schools was not affected by the PowerSchool data breach, said Sarah Swan, spokeswoman for the district, though Centerville Schools uses PowerSchool products.
“There are two different student information systems owned by PowerSchool, but Centerville Schools uses the one that was not compromised,” Centerville Schools said in a statement to parents. “Our Technology Department is continuing to monitor this situation. If anything changes, we will send an update to our school community.”
Dayton Public Schools also uses a version of PowerSchool but the district said it was not affected.
“PowerSchool contacted us to inform us that we were not impacted by the data breach,” said Alex Kincaid, district spokeswoman. “It did not impact eSchool customers, which is what we use.”
Other districts that don’t use PowerSchool products include Fairborn, Beavercreek, Miamisburg, Springboro, Middletown, Yellow Springs, Northridge and Jefferson Twp.
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