School boards across Canada are grappling with the fallout from a significant cyberattack on PowerSchool, a widely used administration software platform.
The breach, affecting school boards in six provinces, may have compromised sensitive personal information of students including names, addresses, health card numbers and medical details.The U.S-based company said unauthorized access to its system occurred between Dec. 19 and 23, 2024, and involved "limited student and staff data."
A PowerSchool spokesperson also told CTVNewsToronto.ca that “for a certain subset of customers” these tables may also include Social Security Number , the U.S. equivalent to a Canadian Social Insurance Number, other Personally Identifiable Information and limited medical and grade information.
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