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PowerSchool Breach Update
TO: Our Community
FROM: Allegany-Limestone CSD
SUBJECT: An Update from Allegany-Limestone CSD on the PowerSchool Cybersecurity Incident
Dear families and educators of the ALCS community—
As you may be aware, PowerSchool – a cloud-based software vendor used by Allegany-Limestone Central School District – recently experienced a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain information in the PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS).
We are reaching out to share more information and next steps that we recently received directly from PowerSchool:
• Identity Protection and Credit Monitoring Services: PowerSchool has engaged Experian, a trusted credit reporting agency, to offer two years of complimentary identity protection services for all students and educators whose information from our PowerSchool SIS was involved. This offer will also include two years of complimentary credit monitoring services for all adult students and educators whose information was involved.
• Notification to Individuals Involved: Starting in the next few weeks, in collaboration with Experian, PowerSchool will provide notice to students (or their parents / guardians if the student is under 18) and educators whose information was involved, as well as a phone number to answer any questions you may have about the incident. The notice will include the identity protection and credit monitoring services offer (as applicable).
• As soon as PowerSchool learned of the incident, they engaged cybersecurity response protocols and mobilized senior leadership and third-party cybersecurity experts to conduct a forensic investigation of the scope of the incident and to monitor for signs of information misuse. PowerSchool is not aware of any identity theft attributable to this incident.
In the meantime, I encourage you to visit https://www.powerschool.com/security/sis-incident/ for up- to-date information on the cybersecurity incident. We care deeply about the welfare of our ALCS families and will continue to do everything we can to support you. Thank you for the important role you play in our community and your shared commitment to putting our students first.
Sincerely,
Kevin L. Straub
Board of Education Meeting on February 25, 2025, at 6:30 pm in MHS-Room 42.
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Dear Gator Community,
Allegany-Limestone Central School District is always looking for ways to proactively benefit the health and welfare of our students. In this pursuit, we feel it necessary to share some important information.
This message is to make you aware of an issue that is negatively impacting children locally, regionally, and nationally. It has to do with the inappropriate use of technological devices. Specifically, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Apps on phones are being used to bring harm to others. Technology, AI, and the internet can be dangerous if they are not used maturely.
The main message to our families is that all of our children's use of their technological devices - be it phones, computers, video games, etc. - should be monitored by an adult. Please have conversations with your children to ensure they are using these devices safely and appropriately.
Some of the cases from outside of our district have led to not only expulsion from school, but also state and federal criminal charges. We are sending this message to prevent this from happening to our students.
We will be speaking to students about this and providing some helpful reminders, and we wanted to make you aware. We also have plans to speak more in-depth to students in classes in the future.
The following are helpful links to resources that may be helpful:
Southern Tier Child Advocacy Center – Allegany County, New York
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (missingkids.org)
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