Global school IT contractor suffers cybersecurity issue, at least one Maine school impacted [Video]

PowerSchool, an education technology platform that serves K-12 schools worldwide, suffered a cybersecurity breach late last month, local school officials said.

At least one unauthorized user was able to access the company’s information systems, Regional School Unit 21, which covers Arundel, Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, told families in a letter Wednesday afternoon.

It’s not clear exactly what information was accessed during the breach, or how many schools in Maine were impacted.

PowerSchool is conducting an ongoing data review and hopes to alert customers to details of the breach “as soon as possible,” a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement. She did not answer questions about what data may have been impacted or how many schools in Maine use the service.

“I don’t have any regional specifics to share at this time,” she said. “We do not anticipate the data being shared or made public, and we believe it has been deleted without any further replication or dissemination.”

Still, …