Power School Data Breach has reached at least 80 Canadian blackboards – National

More than 80 school boards in seven provinces and one territory say they have been hit by the Power school Datalek.

The figures provide further insight into the developing scope of the infringement that school boards in Canada, the US and worldwide have hit after the company’s software – used by schools to store data and personnel data – was endangered at the end of December.

Last week Global News confirmed More than 2.4 million students was struck in the two largest school boards of Ontario – the Toronto District School Board and Peel District School Board.

Worldwide news reached the educational departments of each province and the territory to determine how many schools had seen within their jurisdictions that report the use of the systems or a confirmed infringement.

Their answers to date indicate only three provinces and two areas were not influenced.

According to the various officials and public statements from school boards, data breaches were seen in school boards in:

• Alberta
• Saskatchewan
• Manitoba
• Ontario
• Northwest Territories
• New Scotia
• Prince Edward Island
• Newfoundland and Labrador.

Quebec, New Brunswick, Nunavut, British Columbia and Yukon officials said that their school boards were not affected either.

Nunavut said in an e -mail that the Education Department does not use Power School software, “That is why Nunavut schools were not affected by the data breach”, in which Yukon and BC also advised that they do not use the software “involved in the infringement”.

Quebec said in an e -mail “Only one organization uses power school” and was not influenced by the infringement.

New Brunswick said it uses seven separate power school agencies, one for each district. The data breach was related to a configuration with which Power School remotely had access to servers for problem solving. However, this was not implemented in New Brunswick. “

Through communication with these officials, as well as a visit to individual school boards and reaching the various districts and divisions, Global News was also able to confirm so far that more than 75 school boards in the affected provinces have said they were being made by data affected breaches.

That number is current from January 28.

Officials of the Educational Ministies in Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island confirmed that all their school boards had been hit by the infringement.

In Newfoundland means that NLschools and Conseil Scolaire Francophone de Terre-Neuve et Labrador were hit, while the Public Schools Branch and La Commission Scolaire de Langue Française: Accueil were hit in Pei.

Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia Officials told Global News that only one school board was affected in each of their provinces, with Prairie Spirit School Division and Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Center for Education, while five of their schools of their schools that are respectively affected Five of their schoolboards said were hit.

Those boards are Yellowknife Education District No. 1 and the Catholic School Division of the capital, as well as Beaufort Delta Division Education Council, Dehcho Divisional Educational Council and South Slave Divisional Education Council.

Officials of the Ministry of Manitoba Education referred worldwide to every school division for information, although at least 21 school divisions have notifications or confirmed to worldwide news that they were influenced. These include Brandon School Division, Flin Flon School Division, Louis Riel School Division and Seine River School Division.

The Ministry of Education of Ontario said it was contacted with Power School, which should not yet offer a fulsical breakdown of the effects. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, however, told Global News in an e -mail that had contacted them on January 28, 20 school boards about the use of their information.

In addition to the TDSB and PDSB, Durham District School Board, York Region District School Board, London District Catholic School Board and Ottawa Catholic School Board were all affected.

Alberta civil servants did not provide any details about how many school boards were influenced, but school boards have placed notifications on their websites, including the Calgary Board of Education, Edmonton Catholic School Division, Red Deer Public Schools, Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education and Medicine Hat public school division.

The number of affected students, staff and parents is so far only known from some school boards who have communicated those figures to the public.

Of those who have confirmed that they are being hit, more than 2.46 million students were affected in the school boards of Toronto and Peel.

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The government of Nova Scotia confirmed that 35,000 current and former students were being hit.

The number of affected personnel is not so well known, although Peel said that 18,760 employees were affected by 3,200 employees at Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Center for Education in Nova Scotia.

However, how many schools have affected, could change, since investigations are underway in the situation.

Some schools that informed parents, students and employees about the data breach earlier this month about the data breach later advised that Power School or internal investigations had determined that no data was accessible. Others confirmed that they had determined that data had been influenced and how far the data was extended.

Peel District School Board said, for example, that the affected persons could include who attended in 1965, while Edmonton Catholic Schools said that students were hit by from 2009 and further.

The federal privacy commissioner says he is ‘worried’ about the data breach And has been in contact with Power School about the incident to determine the following steps.

The Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is investigating, while Alberta said it will assess the data breaches that received it as part of its infringement assessment process.

Powschool says it continues to investigate the incident and has hired various credit monitoring services, including Transunion, to offer two years of free credit monitoring services for adults affected, regardless of whether their social insurance or Sofi numbers were accessible.

They have also offered identity protection services “as applicable” for all students and educators.

On Monday, the company said that it submits regulatory reports to the offices of American Procurs General in applicable jurisdictions on behalf of affected customers, and also started with the informing of Canadian supervisors.

Last week, a law firm in Alberta also launched a Class-Action right case against the company, although there is currently “no urgent call for action”, because the lawsuit still has to be certified.

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