Data from hundreds of thousands of N.L. students breached in PowerSchool cyberattack
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This article was published 28/01/2025 (261 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Data belonging to hundreds of thousands of Newfoundland and Labrador students was breached in a cyberattack targeting an information system used by schools across the country.
The province’s Education Department says personal information from about 271,000 students was accessed in the attack on the PowerSchool platform, which is owned by a U.S.-based company.
The data includes names, birthdays and health card numbers of students as far back as 1995.
About 75 per cent of the records belong to people who are no longer in the K-12 school system.
Data belonging to about 14,400 teachers was also breached, and it includes names, addresses and 749 social insurance numbers.
Earlier this month, PowerSchool told school boards in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta and elsewhere that it had experienced a data breach between Dec. 22-28.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 28, 2025.
