Two local school divisions are cautioning their parents over an apparent cybersecurity event with their Student Information System provider PowerSchool.
Both Mountainview and Swan Valley School Divisions say the event took place in late December and affected customers across Canada and the U.S.
They add some PowerSchool data was accessed during this cybersecurity event, and that the company is working with cybersecurity experts to resolve the situation.
The school divisions say that PowerSchool has assured them that the accessed data has been deleted and they are confident that the data was not copied or uploaded elsewhere.
They emphasized that PowerSchool, not the divisions, was the target of the incident.
