Moorhead Public Schools Affected by Data Breach

The data breach affected more than 13,000 schools and universities dating back to 2007.

MOORHEAD, Minn.– We are learning more about a data breach that impacted school districts nationwide including Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead.

The breach affected an online assessment platform called AIMSweb.

It is owned by the Pearson Clinical Assessment company.

Moorhead Area Public schools used the software between 2007 and 2016.

They have just been told that the breach impacted nearly 10,000 current and former students.

Of that number, nearly 6,000 had date of birth exposure.

Pearson Clinical Assessment is offering free credit monitoring to families notified by the district.