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PowerSchool Cybersecurity Incident Notice

Update: May 7, 2025 

 

Dear families and educators of the Clark County community:

We are writing to inform you of a recent development related to the cybersecurity incident PowerSchool experienced in December 2024.

PowerSchool is aware that a threat actor has reached out to multiple school district customers in an attempt to extort them using data from the previously reported December 2024 incident. PowerSchool does not believe this is a new incident.

 

January 7, 2025

Clark County School District is committed to transparency and the safety of our students, staff, and community. We are providing an update regarding the recent PowerSchool cybersecurity incident that has impacted school districts nationwide.

On January 7, 2025, PowerSchool informed Clark County School District that our systems were affected by a data breach that occurred between December 19, 2024, and December 23, 2024. This incident involved unauthorized access to PowerSchool’s support platform, PowerSource, which allowed threat actors to extract data from PowerSchool Student Information System databases.

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