Student passwords ‘no longer usable’ after cyberattack: Pembina Trails

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Pembina Trails School Division has shed light on student details that were compromised when a cyberattack shut down the organization’s servers earlier this month.

“Effective immediately, please know that all student passwords are no longer usable,” senior administration wrote in a mass email to families Thursday morning. “New passwords will be made available after the break.”

The notice states these disruptions are “an essential part of our recovery efforts from the recent cyber incident.”

The division’s information technology team flagged suspicious activity on internal computer systems on the morning of Dec. 2. IT systems and telephone lines later went down, affecting all of the division’s 36 schools.

Pembina Trails has created a public webpage to keep the public up to date on the initial incident and subsequent probe.