Various school boards across the Greater Toronto Area experienced a “cyber incident” after an application they use to store student and limited staff information was exposed to a data breach over the holiday break.

Two school boards in the Greater Toronto Area, including Canada's largest public school board, say the personal information of their students and some staff may have been exposed due to a "cyber incident.

Biz only serves 60M people across America, no biggie A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data – including some Social Security Numbers and medical info – stolen.

The Brownsburg Community School Corporation confirmed its student information system was accessed by an unauthorized user as part of a national data breach. The school corporation confirmed in an email sent to families that thousands of school corporations had their data compromised following a breach of the PowerSchool SIS platform on Dec.