PowerSchool is just not conscious of any identification theft attributable to this incident right now.
THUNDER BAY — Id safety and credit score monitoring companies are being supplied to college students and employees affected by final month’s PowerSchool knowledge breach.
Faculty boards throughout Northwestern Ontario, together with each the Lakehead District Faculty Board and the Thunder Bay Catholic District Faculty Board, had been suggested by PowerSchool the corporate had suffered an information breach on Jan. 7.
PowerSchool is an app used for enrolment and attendance data.
The corporate is now providing two free years of identification safety companies to college students and educators whose data was concerned.
College students and educators who’ve reached the age of majority can even entry free credit score monitoring companies for 2 years.
The incident affected present and former college students and employees, particularly for college kids who had been enrolled because the 2015-16 faculty 12 months, and a small variety of college students who’ve taken eLearning programs.
Impacted data consists of: title, gender, date of beginning, Ontario training quantity and scholar quantity, residence and/or mailing deal with, most up-to-date faculty enrolled, should latest residence room class, enrolment arrival and departure dates, physician’s title and telephone quantity.
The general public board mentioned guardian and emergency contact names and telephone numbers had been additionally impacted and on the Catholic board, residence telephone numbers and the preliminary faculties college students had been enrolled in had been affected.
The Lakehead District Faculty Board states no social insurance coverage numbers had been accessed.
The Catholic Board mentioned two college students had a report containing a social insurance coverage quantity that had been affected by the information breach, however that no social insurance coverage numbers for any employees members had been affected.
All college students and educators can join the establish safety companies supplied by Experian.
Solely adults can join credit score monitoring companies with TransUnio
Neither of those companies is out there to folks, guardians or emergency contacts.
Each of the Thunder Bay faculty boards have mentioned in notices to folks and guardians that PowerSchool has monitored for indicators of data misuses and have reported they aren’t conscious right now of any identification theft attributable to this incident.
Within the area, the Kenora public faculty board and Wet River public faculty board had been additionally affected. The Greenstone-Superior board was not.
PowerSchool has supplied directions for signing up for these companies on-line.
Anybody wanting to make use of these companies should enroll earlier than Might 30, 2025.
Any questions concerning the monitoring companies could be directed to PowerSchool’s name centre at 833-918-7884.
