N.S., P.E.I. school districts victims of global cybersecurity breach [Video]

The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education in Nova Scotia has fallen victim to a global cybersecurity breach.

The Nova Scotia government says it learned Wednesday that the personal information of some staff, as well as current and former students, in the school district was stolen as part of a global cybersecurity breach of PowerSchool.

PowerSchool is a widely-used information system that tracks enrolment, attendance and grades. It contains personal information such birth dates, addresses, and MSI cards, but the province says it doesn’t include financial data like credit card information.

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The province says it is working with the vendor to determine the extent of the breach. Although the full impact is not yet clear, the province doesn’t believe the PowerSchool system in any other centre for education has been affected.

“We take this incident very seriously,” said Education and Early Childhood Development …