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you Vermont student and teacher data
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compromised after a Cyber attack
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targeted a major School software
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provider Channel 3's Kendall CLA spoke
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with school officials today Kendall
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what'd you find out Darren Vermont's
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agency of Education just got back to me
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saying 39 school districts use the
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affected software power school but they
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say not all schools were impacted power
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schools used to track things like
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attendance enrollment and finances
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information that was breached varies by
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school but includes both student and
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teacher data like Social Security
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numbers other personally identifiable
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information and medical information
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Power School says they paid the hackers
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to delete any acquired data in the hope
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that it will not be shared or abused but
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that's not known State education
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officials say they are doing everything
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they can to safeguard student data
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meanwhile servers within the Addison
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Northwest School District were also
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impacted by a separate secur cyber
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security incident school officials tell
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us they do not believe that the two
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incidents are connected and are still
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assessing the situation in the studio
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Kendall CLA Channel 3 News
