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		<title>CBC Manitoba: PowerSchool paid hackers a fee to delete stolen data: Manitoba school board memo</title>
        
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fiona Odlum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
        
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">&#8220;There&#8217;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,&#8221; said David Gerhard, head of computer science at the University of Manitoba.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To read the entire article, please follow the link to <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/powerschool-fee-delete-data-1.7428152">CBC Manitoba</a>.&nbsp;</p>
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