Some students and employees in Rapides Parish schools might have had their personal information compromised because of a breach with a company used by the district for its student information system,

Area school districts might have been impacted by the cyberattack of a nationwide education software cloud-based platform called PowerSchool, used to store sensitive student data.

The student information system used by every public school in the state fell victim to a data breach that may have put Alabama students’ medical and grade information at risk, according to the state Department of Education.