Good Afternoon DCPS Families,
Earlier this week, PowerSchool, an international provider of education administration software, announced that it had suffered a cybersecurity incident in late December. Although the 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 the security of individual school system networks was not disturbed.
Dickenson County Public Schools utilizes PowerSchool software. We have asked PowerSchool to identify the scope of the impact on information pertaining to members of our community, if any. Dickenson County Public Schools takes the privacy of our students and employees’ personal information very seriously. We will work with PowerSchool to ensure that any individuals impacted by this incident are directly notified.
We will provide additional information as soon as it becomes available.
Thank you,
Haydee L. Robinson,
Division Superintendent