S.C. officials assess last month’s PowerSchool cyberattack
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - South Carolina education officials are working to understand how much of its educator and student has been impacted by a cyberattack.
PowerSchool, a cloud-based software platform used in K-12 schools for students, parents and educators, announced that it has become aware of a data breach that affected some of its clients last month.
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According to a statement from the South Carolina Department of Education, they were informed by PowerSchool of the breach on Tuesday. The statement said PowerSchool’s senior leadership said “personally identifiable information” was “compromised.”
“The SCDE is currently working to understand the full scope of the breach,” the statement said.
According to the platform, the potential cybersecurity incident involved unauthorized access to student and teacher information through one of its community-focused customer portals where someone gained access using compromised credentials.
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Cybersecurity publication BleepingComputer reports that the information exposed was primarily information, like names and addresses, but some districts may have included Social Security numbers, medical information and more personally identifiable information in their data.
The SCDE said in a statement they are in with the State Law Enforcement Division and the S.C. Attorney General’s Office.
State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver said her department recognizes “the anxiety this raises for them and their families.”
“While PowerSchool has taken ability for this breach, our Department will take uncompromising action to ensure we uncover the complete extent of this incident,” she said in a statement. “We will insist that PowerSchool not only notify affected individuals but also provide them with credit and identity monitoring services.”
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