The Haverford Township and Lower Merion School Districts have been hit by a national data breach involving PowerSchool data software, writes Maddie Hanna for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Accessed data may have included “personally identifiable information” for staff and students, including names, addresses, and student health and grade information.
Haverford Township school officials notified families Wednesday that a tool was used to extract tables that “primarily include contact information with data elements such as name and address information.”
The tables may also include Social Security numbers and other personal information “for current and former students depending on the specific school district,” Haverford Superintendent Maureen Reusche and director of technology Robert Anderson said in a message to families.
PowerSchool reported it was reasonably confident the bad actor destroyed all copies of the data accessed and that it won’t be shared on the dark web.
In a statement Thursday, a PowerSchool spokesperson said that the company has “taken all appropriate steps to prevent the data involved from further unauthorized access or misuse. The incident is contained and we do not anticipate the data being shared or made public.”
Find out more about the data breach and the response to it in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
