Alberta's privacy watchdog is investigating more than 30 data breaches from Alberta schools stemming from the PowerSchool cyberattack in late December. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has received 31 breach notices regarding unauthorized access to students' and teachers' personal information. The OIPC is working with affected schools to mitigate the risk to individuals whose information was exposed and is examining notices to determine the exact number of people affected in Alberta.
Alberta's privacy watchdog is investigating more than 30 data breach es from Alberta schools stemming from the PowerSchool cyberattack, the provincial government said in a news release Wednesday.The Alberta office of the information and privacy commissioner has so far received 31 data breach notices, stemming from the PowerSchool cyberattack on Dec. 28, 2024.
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has started reviewing the 31 breach notices it has received so far regarding unauthorized access to students' personal information. In some cases, teachers' personal information was also accessed. A "significant number" of Albertans were affected, including many students, McLeod said. Her office is examining notices as they come in, to figure out exactly how many people in Alberta were affected.
One of the notices the OIPC received involved students' names, phone numbers, birth dates, genders, grades, school-issued email addresses, and student identification numbers.
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