Canadian school photo company says students’ pictures stolen in ransomware attack [Video]

A Canadian school photography company says it was hit by a ransomware attack that held about 3,500 photos of students in several Saskatchewan school divisions hostage, among others across the country.

On Feb. 15, Edge Imaging contacted the office of the privacy commissioner to disclose a “cyber incident that may have affected school divisions across Canada,” according to a report released last week.

In a letter to the commission, Edge Imaging said the breach affected Entourage, the owner of its yearbook software web platform Creator Studio Pro, after the service noticed a breach of its Canadian Amazon Web Services cloud server “that may have affected uploaded images of school boards’ students and staff.

“On February 5, 2024, Entourage recognized a cyber incident on its cloud server due to a compromised username and password of one of its server accounts. The result was a ransomware attack where the threat actor removed …