HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)EducationMinorMediumContained

American Heritage Charter School

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Dec 28, 2024

Filed

Jan 9, 2025

To disclose

12 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for American Heritage Charter School →2 incidents on file

American Heritage Charter School notified the Idaho Attorney General on January 9, 2025, of a data breach involving its student information system provider, PowerSchool. On December 28, 2024, unauthorized access occurred via compromised credentials to the PowerSource portal. Affected data includes student/staff names, IDs, grades, and demographic information. The incident is contained, and PowerSchool is providing credit monitoring and identity protection services.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 12 days

Dec 28, 2024

Discovered

Jan 9, 2025

Filed

Part of PowerSchool supply-chain incident (2025) — a supply-chain cascade affecting multiple organizations.View cascade →

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: American Heritage Charter School
norm: american heritage charter school

Name: American Heritage Charter School
norm: american heritage charter school
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 28, 2024
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 9, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDEducation
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Idaho Attorney General's Office
Third party: via PowerSchool
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged cybersecurity response protocols and mobilized a cross-functional response team
Engaged third-party cybersecurity experts
Informed law enforcement
Isolated the unauthorized access point to the PowerSource portal
Deactivated the compromised credential
Restricted all access to the affected portal
Conducted a full password reset
Tightened password and access control for all PowerSource customer support portal accounts
Changes made: Providing credit monitoring to affected adults
Providing identity protection services to affected minors
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 12 days(12 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://www.ag.idaho.gov/content/uploads/2025/01/1-9-2025-American-Heritage-Charter-School.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 9, 2025
Raw hash: 47eeeab0307a4d6a57e1afbb4838801a4a662fe99304100693e262faa600c8e8

Reporting entityAmerican Heritage Charter School

Victim entityAmerican Heritage Charter School

Incidentdiscovered Dec 28, 2024

Stated responseEngaged cybersecurity response protocols and mobilized a cross-functional response team

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.ag.idaho.gov