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McCall-Donnelly Joint School District No. 421

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 7, 2025

Filed

Jan 10, 2025

To disclose

3 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for McCall-Donnelly Joint School District No. 421 →

McCall-Donnelly School District 421 notified the Idaho Attorney General of a breach involving its PowerSchool SIS provider. An unauthorized party used compromised credentials to access student and teacher data from two tables. The district disabled the connection, engaged forensic investigators (CyberSteward, CrowdStrike), and negotiated data destruction. Credit monitoring and identity protection are being provided.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 3 days

Jan 7, 2025

Discovered

Jan 10, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

8 wks faster

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: McCall-Donnelly Joint School District No. 421
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Name: McCall-Donnelly Joint School District No. 421
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Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 7, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 8, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Idaho Office of the Attorney General
Third party: via PowerSchool
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Engaged CyberSteward and CrowdStrike to investigate and respond
Negotiated agreement for the party to destroy stolen data
Notified current employees of the breach via email
Disabled the backchannel connection to the PowerSchool SIS
Reviewed other systems to ensure other such connections are not kept open
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: 3 days(3 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/2025/01/1-10-2025-McCall-Donnelly-Joint-School-District-No.-421.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 10, 2025
Raw hash: e77b91a71f7821e1bf08f9754cbc8bb965b17226f5af3aa2ef5d910f642efbfc

Reporting entityMcCall-Donnelly Joint School District No. 421

Victim entityMcCall-Donnelly Joint School District No. 421

Incidentdiscovered Jan 7, 2025

Stated responseEngaged CyberSteward and CrowdStrike to investigate and respond

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.ag.idaho.gov