Privacy Commissioner launches investigation into PowerSchool Breach

Commissioner Kerry Hatfield has launched an investigation into the PowerSchool breach.

The breach, which affected PowerSchool customers worldwide, impacted thousands of current and former students and teachers in this Province back in February.

The breach involved MCP numbers, social insurance numbers, health details, and other sensitive information about current and former students and teachers in this Province going back a number of years.

Hatfield will focus her investigation on the provincial Department of Education’s use of PowerSchool, including the Department’s decisions and practices about what information it collected using PowerSchool, its policies and practices about how long information of students and teachers was retained in PowerSchool, and other matters relevant to the Department’s use of PowerSchool which may have either mitigated or exacerbated the impact of the breach.