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CBE offers two years of free ID protection to families affected by PowerSchool attack
The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) is offering two years of free credit monitoring and identity protection to families ...
What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach
The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important ...
More than 70 million students and teachers had their personal data stolen in PowerSchool breach
As reported by BleepingComputer, the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers was exposed during the ...
Student names, addresses exposed in cyber attack on Mississauga, Brampton schools
Names, addresses, birth dates and other critical data such as who is allowed to pick up a student from school, is information ...
Cyberattack affecting school boards across Canada may involve decades of data. What can families do?
The scope of the PowerSchool data breach impacting school boards across the country is widening, with some boards revealing ...
Cyber incident at Ontario’s largest school board involves data going back to 1985
Software made by the company PowerSchool, which stores data for boards across the continent, was subject to a high-profile breach at the beginning of the year.
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Ottawa Catholic School Board students' data accessed in cyber attack
Student and staff information at the Ottawa Catholic School Board has been accessed in a massive North America-wide cyber ...
Personal information of Ontario students going back decades may have been breached in cyberattack
Students' information that was breached in an attack on many boards in some cases includes medical information and even ...
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PowerSchool thieves net decades of Canadian students' records, hit 40-plus US states
Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.
Cyberattacks on schools likely to increase unless student data is protected, experts say
The education sector has become a favourite target for cybercriminals in recent years, with ransomware attacks often costing ...
Oliverio on Harrison County BOE on cybersecurity attack: ‘It’s not a matter of if, but when’
The Harrison County Board of Education went into executive session during an emergency meeting on Friday after it learned ...
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Staff and student information from 2010 upwards accessed in large-scale cyber attack; free identity protection services offered
On Friday the Medicine Hat Public School Division received an update from PowerSchool, a third-party cloud platform, relaying direct impacts that apply to local schools following a data breach that ...