If you’re a student or teacher — or were one in the past few decades — you may be getting a head’s up soon that your personal information was accessed as part of the widespread PowerSchool cyber breach that recently hit school boards across Canada.
Those whose social insurance numbers were accessed in the massive cyberattack in late December are being notified, the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Education announced Tuesday.
In that province, the breach included information from more than 270,000 students dating back to 1995, with 75 per cent of the affected data belonging to those no longer in the K-12 system, the department said. It also involved more than 14,000 teachers, dating back to 2010.
PowerSchool — a cloud-based software provider used by dozens of Canadian K-12 school boards to manage student info and communications — has been doing damage control since informing clients across Canada and the U.S. of the incident earlier this month.
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