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millions of students and teachers data
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has been compromised after a Cyber
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attack on a popular student information
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platform used by schools Nationwide the
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platform called Power School currently
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used by districts across Kansas in the
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Witchita area 12 news reporter kale
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Chapman joins us now after talking with
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tech expert on what this could mean for
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teachers Mike Rachel what we know right
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now from talking to schools in our area
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is that no financial information Social
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Security numbers or photographs have
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been compromised because of this breach
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the big question now is what information
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was compromised and what could someone
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do with it it could absolutely have um
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all kinds of different types of
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personally identifiable information like
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your street address your parents names
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your siblings names could have phone
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numbers it could have a lot of different
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things while that data may not seem as
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important as something like a social
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security number cyber security expert
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Bill Ramsay says it's enough information
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to cause you trouble oh well you know
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that's how we start identity theft it's
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just having names that we can tie with
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addresses and cell phone numbers it get
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you a long way down the path some
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districts around wiah that use power
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school and could be impacted by the data
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breach are Andover Augusta Ark City
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Circle Haven and cedrick in a statement
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to 12 News Andover public schools says
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quote Andover public schools is serious
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about protecting the security and
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privacy of all data whether in power
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school or other vendor we utilize
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Andover public schools uses two- Factor
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authentication to add an extra layer of
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protection to accounts and staff
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participate in monthly security training
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and tests the breach that power school
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experienced is very concerning to us
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Ramsay says a platform provider like
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power school is an unusual Target for
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hackers any platform is a target but
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some are bigger targets than others so I
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don't say that this one's common because
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it's not the typical place you're going
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to go to get some kind of a ransom for
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these kinds of attacks but you know not
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unheard of in a statement to Andover
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Schools power school says that the
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breach is now contained and that there
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is no ongoing threat Ramsay says if you
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or your students information could have
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been compromised one thing you can do to
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try and minimize any damage is looking
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do a monitoring service like LifeLock to
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help prevent someone with your
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information from doing something like
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taking out a credit card or a loan in
