HackingEducationEducationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDEducationMediumContained

Preston School District No. 201

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Jan 7, 2025

Filed

Jan 13, 2025

To disclose

6 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Preston School District No. 201 →

Preston School District No. 201 (Idaho) notified the Idaho Attorney General on January 13, 2025, of a cybersecurity incident involving third-party vendor PowerSchool. The breach exposed contact information (names, addresses) and potentially Social Security Numbers of some students, parents, and staff. The incident was contained by PowerSchool, with no evidence of malware. Identity protection services are being offered.

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Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 6 days

Jan 7, 2025

Discovered

Jan 13, 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: Preston School District No. 201
norm: preston school district no 201
Domain: psd201.org

Name: Preston School District No. 201
norm: preston school district no 201
Domain: psd201.org
Industry: Educationllm

Discovered: Jan 7, 2025
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 13, 2025
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PIIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Third-Party / Supply Chain
MITRE ATT&CK: T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified the Attorney General’s Office of the security breach per Idaho Code §28-51-105(1)Notified the Executive Director of the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Third party: via PowerSchool
Initial access: supply_chain

During the incident: Notified the Attorney General’s Office of the security breach
Notified the Executive Director of the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Sent an email to Preston School District staff, students, and parents about the data breach
PowerSchool contained the incident
PowerSchool has taken all appropriate steps to prevent the data involved from further unauthorized access or misuse
Changes made: PowerSchool will be providing more information and resources, including identity protection services or credit monitoring
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 days(6 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/2025/01/1-13-2025-Preston-School-District-No.-201.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 13, 2025
Raw hash: ab388d5ffeb0e76a3e243739a61b41ad2ad90ddbb3f6246a0989873d3cc2f989

Reporting entityPreston School District No. 201

Victim entityPreston School District No. 201

Incidentdiscovered Jan 7, 2025

Stated responseNotified the Attorney General’s Office of the security breach

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancewww.ag.idaho.gov