Some of you may have heard of or may use the application LastPass. It is a convenient way to save online passwords in one place. Unfortunately, this very secure company's cloud was breached recently and hackers copied 25.6 million users' username and password information. Click here to read more about the incident.

As a district we do not use LastPass so this is meant to inform, not alarm.

This incident spurs me to remind you about how important it is to keep your passwords safe, secure, hard to figure out, and change them often. We are all at fault for reusing easy passwords and in some cases that works, but don't make that a habit. Protect yourself and your information.

If you are still in need of a New Year's Resolution, perhaps we can make a suggestion. Please, please, please no more passwords written on post-it notes stuck under your keyboard! (At least that doesn't use LastPass:)