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SPS Update - January 9, 2025

Update #1 for PowerSchool Data Breach

Good evening,

As a follow up to yesterday’s email, the district was able to determine which fields in the Southington Public Schools PowerSchool database have personally identifiable information (PII) for current and past students. Those fields are listed below. Information about classes, grades, etc. is not stored in the same area and was not part of the data breach.

PowerSchool has assured the district that they have taken all appropriate steps to prevent the data involved from further unauthorized access or misuse. They do not anticipate the data being shared or made public and believe it has been deleted without any further replication or dissemination.

We will continue to keep you updated as more information becomes available. If you have further questions, please contact the Technology Department at 860-628-3200 x10360.

Jessica Poon, Information Systems Manager
Tyler Savage, Network Manager
Rebecca Savelkoul, Digital Learning Coordinator

Data Fields
Alert_Guardian, Alert_Medical, City, DOB, Doctor_Name, Doctor_Phone, Emerg_Contact_1, Emerg_Contact_2, Emerg_Phone_1, Emerg_Phone_2, ExitComment, Father, Gender, GuardianEmail, Home_Phone, Last_Name, LunchStatus, Mailing_Street, Middle_Name, Mother, Street, Student_Number, Student_Web_ID

SPS Update - January 8, 2025

Notice of PowerSchool Data Breach

Good evening,
 
The district was made aware yesterday evening by our student information systems vendor, PowerSchool, of a data breach that occurred on December 28, 2024. Members from Southington Public Schools Technology team attended PowerSchool's first available webinar this afternoon to learn the extent and scope of the breach.
 
Here is the information learned in the webinar. The data included is general Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as Name, DOB, Email, etc. At this time, it does not include sensitive information such as SSN or passwords. PowerSchool has assured us that the data should be contained. 
 
We will continue to monitor this situation and provide any new information as it becomes available. If you have questions, you can call the Technology Department at 860-628-3200 x10360.