JOHN DAY — As word spread that students and teachers throughout Oregon were the victims of a widespread data breach, schools in Grant County breathed a sigh of relief.

PowerSchool, a cloud-based student and faculty information management service that serves K-12 schools throughout North America, was the victim of a cyberattack late last year that granted unauthorized access to the personal information of millions of students and faculty.

According to PowerSchool, personal information that may have been compromised includes names, contact information, birthdates, limited medical alert information, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data.

Grant County Education Service District Superintendent Robert Waltenburg said schools in Grant County use a different service, called Synergy, for their information management and were not subject to the PowerSchool data breach.

Wallowa County Education Service District Superintendent Landon Braden said it’s been 20 years since any of the schools in the district have used PowerSchool’s services.

“None of our schools have been touched by that data breach,” he said.  

PowerSchool is offering two years of complimentary identity protection services for students and faculty whose information was compromised, as well as two years of complimentary credit monitoring provided by TransUnion for faculty and students who have reached the age of majority, or legal adulthood.