SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Several school districts in Massachusetts, including Springfield, have been informed of a possible data breach of the PowerSchool Student Information System. PowerSchool contains information on staff and K-12 students' grades, attendance, and other data for school districts across the country. The company notified districts on Tuesday that a cybersecurity incident occurred on Dec. 28th. The data breach compromises names, addresses, medical records, and social security numbers that may have been found in the system. Kids skate with Thunderbirds, Boomer at MGM Springfield Springfield Public Schools released a statement to staff and families that the PowerSchool incident did impact their district. They say that the issue has since been contained and do not expect the data involved to be shared or made public. The data breach did not affect Westfield Public Schools. Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski said Westfield’s IT Department and the WPS Data Department have done internal checks, and have not found any data inconsistencies or concerns. A PowerSchool spokesperson provided the following statement to our sister station News 8 in Connecticut on Thursday: On December 28, 2024, we became aware of a potential cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain PowerSchool SIS information through one of our community-focused customer portals, PowerSource. We have taken all appropriate steps to prevent the data involved from further unauthorized access or misuse. The incident is contained and we do not anticipate the data being shared or made public. PowerSchool is not experiencing, nor expects to experience, any operational disruption and continues to provide services as normal to our customers. As soon as we learned of the incident, we immediately engaged our cybersecurity response protocols and mobilized a cross-functional response team, including senior leadership and third-party cybersecurity experts. PowerSchool is committed to protecting the security and integrity of our applications. We take our responsibility to protect student data privacy and act responsibly as data processors extremely seriously. Our priority is to support our customers through this incident and to continue our unrelenting focus on data security. PowerSchool is committed to providing affected customers, families, and educators with the resources and support they may need as we work through this together. NBC Boston reports Wellesley, Needham and Holliston Public Schools were also impacted. Local News Headlines Amherst town manager hosts community discussion What this Massachusetts lottery winner plans to do with $1 million prize Chicopee police seek to identify man for alleged actions on PVTA bus Several Massachusetts school districts informed of PowerSchool data breach WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on WWLP.com.