HackingEducationEducationStolen CredentialsSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Data ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedRansom PaidIdentity (basic)EducationHealth (basic)MinorCriticalActive

West Ada School District

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Severity

Critical

Discovered

Dec 28, 2024

Filed

Jan 11, 2025

To disclose

14 days

Affected

149,000

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for West Ada School District →

West Ada School District notified the Idaho Attorney General of a breach affecting its PowerSchool Student Information System. The incident occurred Dec 19-23, 2024, involving unauthorized access via compromised credentials. Over 149,000 student and staff records were potentially affected, including PII and health data. PowerSchool Group LLC, the third-party provider, engaged CrowdStrike and CyberSteward, paid a ransom, and disabled access. The District issued notifications and is evaluating credit monitoring.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 9 days

discovery → filing · 14 days

Dec 19, 2024

Begins

Dec 28, 2024

Discovered

Jan 11, 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.Confirmed149,000 affectedView incident

Name: West Ada School District
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Name: West Ada School District
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Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Dec 28, 2024
Breach occurred: Dec 19, 2024 – Dec 23, 2024
Undetected for: 9 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 9, 2025
Affected individuals: 149,000nationwide
Data types: Identity (basic)Health (basic)
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid Accounts
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Regulator citations: Notified Idaho Attorney General's OfficeNotified State Board of Education and State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Third party: via PowerSchool Group LLC
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Notified law enforcement
Locked down affected systems
Engaged CrowdStrike and CyberSteward
Paid the threat actor not to release or disseminate the compromised data
Issued an initial notification to current West Ada employees and student families via email
Disabled support connections between PowerSource and all PowerSchool Student Information System product instances
Consulted with external cybersecurity experts
Changes made: Actively assessing our environment for security improvements
Analyzing the data involved in the breach to proactively notify affected parties
Evaluating the provision of credit monitoring services or other protective measures
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 14 days(14 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/2025/01/1-11-2025-West-Ada-School-District.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 11, 2025
Raw hash: 175610cc5123dde662455bd145cf222eee9b99df8243014e4f66dfcf98eb9c71

Reporting entityWest Ada School District

Victim entityWest Ada School District

Incidentdiscovered Dec 28, 2024

Stated responseNotified law enforcement

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.ag.idaho.gov