Update from PowerSchool on Data Breach
Posted Date: 1/17/25 (1:16 PM)
Below you will find the latest update from PowerSchool.
Dear PowerSchool SIS Customer,
Thank you for your continued patience and partnership as we address the recent cybersecurity incident. Over the last few weeks, we have been focused on assessing the scope of data involved, making further enhancements to our cybersecurity defenses, and developing a plan to help you and our shared community.
As a PowerSchool SIS customer whose information was involved, I am writing to provide you with updates on several important next steps:
Identity Protection and Credit Monitoring Services: PowerSchool has engaged Experian a trusted credit reporting agency, to offer complimentary identity protection and credit monitoring services to all students and educators whose information from your PowerSchool SIS was involved. This offer is being provided regardless of whether an individual’s Social Security number was exfiltrated.
We appreciate all that you are doing to support families and educators through this process.
As a PowerSchool SIS customer whose information was involved, I am writing to provide you with updates on several important next steps:
Identity Protection and Credit Monitoring Services: PowerSchool has engaged Experian a trusted credit reporting agency, to offer complimentary identity protection and credit monitoring services to all students and educators whose information from your PowerSchool SIS was involved. This offer is being provided regardless of whether an individual’s Social Security number was exfiltrated.
- Identity Protection: PowerSchool will be offering two years of complimentary identity protection services for all students and educators whose information was involved.
- Credit Monitoring: PowerSchool will also be offering two years of complimentary credit monitoring services for all adult students and educators whose information was involved.
- Community: PowerSchool will coordinate with Experian to provide notice on your behalf to students (or their parents / guardians if the student is under 18) and educators, as applicable, whose information was involved, as well as a call center to answer questions from the community. The notice will include the identity protection and credit monitoring services offer (as applicable).
- Regulatory: PowerSchool will provide notification on your behalf to relevant state attorney general offices. You may also have notification requirements with your state’s Department of Education where required. Since many customers have already notified and are in close contact with their state’s Department of Education, PowerSchool will defer to you on these notifications.
We appreciate all that you are doing to support families and educators through this process.
Sincerely,
Hardeep Gulati
Chief Executive Officer, PowerSchool