National PowerSchool Incident
Update: January 15, 2025
Botetourt County Public Schools has received assurances from PowerSchool that the company will notify any impacted members of the BCPS community. PowerSchool’s investigation into this matter is ongoing, and Botetourt County Public Schools has not been provided with details on what information was exposed for specific individuals.
PowerSchool has now posted an informational FAQ page about the incident to their website:
https://www.powerschool.com/security/sis-incident/
We will continue to monitor developments about PowerSchool’s response to their breach and how members of our community may have been impacted.
Original Notification: January 10, 2025
Earlier this week, PowerSchool, an international provider of education administration software, announced that it had suffered a cybersecurity incident in late December. Although security of PowerSchool’s systems has been restored, data pertaining to students and educators at hundreds of school systems around the country were subjected to unauthorized access. The breach was limited to PowerSchool’s internal systems, and security of individual school system networks was not disturbed.
Botetourt County Public Schools utilizes some PowerSchool tools. We have asked PowerSchool to identify the scope of impact this incident may have had on information pertaining to members of our community. PowerSchool has assured us that they are investigating the matter.
Botetourt County Public Schools takes the privacy of our students’ and employees’ information very seriously. We are committed to holding PowerSchool accountable. PowerSchool has advised us that they will directly notify any impacted individuals with details of the information pertaining to him or her that was affected. Botetourt County Public Schools has not been provided with details on what information was exposed for specific individuals.