Katy ISD reports student data safe after software glitch

KATY, Texas -- Katy ISD is sent out a letter recently that warned parents of a potential data breach involving students' information.

Katy ISD sent a letter on Oct. 7 to parents that student data was sent to other districts by the software program that is managed by SunGard K-12, a third-party vendor that provides services for Katy ISD’s student data management system.

SunGard K-12 said the breach happened in August of this year and that it involved Katy ISD student data from the 2013-2014 school year.

According to Katy ISD, there was no evidence that the data was seen by anyone from other districts.

SunGard K-12 alerted the district about the breach and the steps that they are taking to further protect student information.

Meanwhile, Katy ISD said that the data breach does not impact all current students, but the information was included on the database affected.

SunGard K-12 said that the company considers it is a very low risk that any student data was inappropriately accessed or used by any unauthorized person.

SunGard K-12 offered affected students and staff a free one-year membership to data protection and monitoring services.

The districts said they will take precautions to make sure there are no more issues.

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