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Two provincial commissioners have released findings into a wide-scale cyberattack which breached a third-party cloud platform called PowerSchool, used by the Medicine Hat Public School Division and Medicine Hat Catholic Board of Education at the beginning of 2025.

On Tuesday, the Alberta and Ontario privacy commissioners, who issued separate investigations under a co-ordinated memorandum of understanding and information-sharing, have both found common key findings that some or all of the affected school divisions failed to include certain privacy and security-related provisions in their agreements with PowerSchool.

On Jan. 9, both local school authorities reported their facilities were impacted by the cyberattack, and student and staff data from 2010 and onw

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