Several school districts in Massachusetts were affected by the national data breach of the software company PowerSchool.

Personal data from a number of Chicago-area school districts was obtained in a cyberattack targeting PowerSchool, a popular education software company, many districts revealed this week. Burbank School District 11,

Some personal information stolen through software PowerSchool, and while company doesn’t believe data was disseminated, local cybersecurity says monitor your identity info.

Officials said addresses, grades, and Social Security numbers may have been included in the breach.

The K-12 software giant that runs the most commonly used student information system in U.S. schools said a data breach could have exposed the personal information of millions of students and teachers.

Freezing your credit is an easy way to protect yourself from identity theft and fraud. With the PowerSchool data breach impacting school districts in Massachusetts and across the country, cybersecurity experts at the Identity Theft Resource Center recommend safeguarding your children’s information now,