CBC Manitoba: PowerSchool paid hackers a fee to delete stolen data: Manitoba school board memo

A cyberattack that exposed student information on a web-based management system has impacted 80 per cent of Manitoba school divisions across the province, according to a cabinet spokesperson.

PowerSchool is a California-based provider of cloud software to over 16,000 customers in more than 90 countries. The company informed its Manitoba customers on Tuesday that a cyber incident had occurred on Dec. 28 and that some specific student information had been compromised.

“There’s some conversations now, going around, that maybe they waited too long to inform people … it took until the beginning of January before people started to find out,” said David Gerhard, head of computer science at the University of Manitoba.

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