Free services offered to Ontario students victimized by online hackers [Video]

Free identity protection and credit monitoring are being offered to Ontario students past and present who were victims of a security breach.

PowerSchool, the company whose systems were compromised, is offering the services following the breach of private information that took place late last year. School boards across North America including 75 in Canada such as those in Toronto, Peel, Durham and York were affected.

Information such as names, addresses birth dates and other critical data was possibly collected by the online hackers during the breach.

The data breach took place in late December and involved software used by PowerSchool, a third-party supplier whose system has been adopted by school boards in North America.

A bulletin sent to families of students who were targeted confirmed that student information was compromised as part of the incident.

Information for students going as far back as 1965 may have been accessed.

The information …