Canadas privacy watchdog in contact with PowerSchool on student data hack – National [Video]

Canada’s privacy commissioner is communicating with PowerSchool after its software — used by schools across North America to store student data — was the subject of a high-profile data breach.

“The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is in contact with PowerSchool to obtain more information about this breach and to determine next steps,” a spokesperson for Philippe Dufresne’s office wrote in an email to Global News.

The statement from Dufresne’s office comes after it was reported by The Canadian Press several Canadian school boards are among those affected by the data breach.

Officials in Ontario, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia say they’re working with PowerSchool to determine the extent of the breach.

The company behind the software says on its website it had determined that some “personally identifiable information,” such as social security numbers and medical information, “was involved” in the breach. PowerSchool says it is working to identify …