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Ca: Sooke School District warns parents of privacy breach

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Dissent

BC Local News reports:

The Sooke School District is warning parents about a privacy invasion after an employee’s email was hacked.

“It has been discovered that the email account of a staff member was compromised by someone outside of the district and used to email out a spam informational link to other staff. Approximately 15 other staff members clicked on the link, thereby exposing their email accounts and email contents to the hacker(s),” said schhol [sic] superintendent Jim Cambridge.

Read more on BC Local News.

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