February 3, 2025
Dear Parent/Guardians and Boundary County School District #101 Employees,
As we previously communicated, PowerSchool – a cloud-based software vendor used by Boundary County 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 offered (as applicable).
In the meantime, I encourage you to visit https://www.powerschool.com/security/sis-incident/ for up-to- date information on the cybersecurity incident. Again, thank you for your patience as we work through this incident with PowerSchool.
Sincerely,
Rob Kent
Technology Director
rob.kent@mail.bcsd101.com
Jan Bayer
Superintendent
jan.bayer@mail.bcsd101.com
