The Charles City School District is updating stakeholders on a cybersecurity breach that affected PowerSchool, the company that provides CCCSD’s student information system.
In a letter to families, Superintendent Brian Burnight and Director of Technology April Hansen say PowerSchool recently discovered unauthorized access to its systems and is working to address the situation.
According to PowerSchool, an unauthorized party used a compromised credential to gain access to some user data and then to the management console of the platform’s PowerSource tool. The company says the breach has been contained and that no malware was involved.
The data that may have been compromised includes family and educator information, limited to the student and teacher tables, which primarily include contact information such as name and address.
PowerSchool is working to prevent any of that data from further unauthorized access or misuse and believes this data has been deleted and will not be shared anywhere publicly.
The letter also notes that this breach is on PowerSchool’s end and has not affected any other systems in the school district.
