In a major security breach of PowerSchool, the records of thousands of New Trier High School students and staff were illegally accessed in the final weeks of 2024. School officials at New Trier, alongside schools worldwide, were first notified on Tuesday, Jan. 7, and communication was sent out shortly after. The exposed data contained the records of 35,000 former and current students, including home addresses, student ID numbers, and parents’ names. Of these, 11,500 records also included the social security numbers of students who attended New Trier between 1999 and 2017, per Chief Technology Officer Dr. Michael Marassa. Based on his correspondence with PowerSchool, Marassa is confident that the data were deleted and are no longer available online. Editor-in-Chief Neil Sanderson wrote the story. Read More - Link in Bio