Dear Grand County School District Family,
We are writing to make you aware of a recent cybersecurity incident involving PowerSchool, a software vendor which provides our Student Information System (SIS).
On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, PowerSchool informed our leadership team that they experienced a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain PowerSchool SIS customer data. Unfortunately, they have confirmed that the information belongs to some of Grand County School District’s families and educators.
Our technology team attended an online meeting with PowerSchool yesterday where they explained what happened and what steps the company is taking to ensure data will not be made public and prevent something like this from happening again. A PowerSchool representative said, “We believe and have assurance that the data has been deleted”. This means that the data stolen during the hacking was destroyed and it is unlikely that the data will be shared publicly.
PowerSchool informed us that the taken data primarily includes parent and student contact information with data elements such as name and address information. Across their customer base, they have determined that for a portion of individuals, some personally identifiable information (PII) and health information was impacted.
Protecting our students is something we take seriously. With PowerSchool’s help, more information and resources (including credit monitoring or identity protection services if applicable) will be provided to you as it becomes available.
We believe that the situation has been handled the best way possible and that our data is very unlikely to be made public. We will continue direct communication with PowerSchool, and we will inform our community every time new information is shared with us.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Sincerely,
Grand County School District