STILWATER, Minn. – Stillwater Area Public Schools administration says their student information system was breached Tuesday evening.
The district says the security breach occurred through a program called PowerSchool, which the district uses to store important information about students, such as staff and student names, addresses, dates of birth, emergency contacts, teachers in the class, registration dates, telephone numbers of guardians and some individual emergency contacts.
Fortunately, the district says the data has not been made public at this time. The district also says it is important to note that no financial information or Social Security numbers were accessed during the breach.
The district says the hacker gained access to PowerSchool through compromised login credentials. Once PowerSchool became aware of the breach, it implemented its own cybersecurity protocols and then alerted the Stillwater school district, which initiated its own cybersecurity protocol.
This incident not only affected the Stillwater school district, but was part of a larger, nationwide data breach, according to a news release.
The school district and PowerSchool continue to investigate.
