STORY: San Diego Unified School District warns all students’ families of data breach
San Diego Unified School District notified families of all its roughly 100,000 students Tuesday about a data breach of its student information system provider.
PowerSchool, which is headquartered in Folsom and used by districts across the country, became aware of the incident on Dec. 28. The letter San Diego Unified sent to families said the district learned of it Tuesday.
“We have been informed that some student data from our district and other districts was downloaded by an unauthorized user, and an analysis is being done by PowerSchool on the type of information accessed,” W. Drew Rowlands, the district’s deputy superintendent of operations, wrote in the email to families.
Rowlands wrote that PowerSchool had informed them that the situation had been contained.
District spokesperson James Canning wrote in a Wednesday email that families of all current students were sent an email, and they have about 115,000 emails of current students. He wrote there are nearly 99,000 students in the district.
PowerSchool said in a statement Wednesday that it had become aware of a potential incident where an unauthorized user gained access to certain information through a consumer portal.
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