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Ca: Privacy breach at northeast Calgary school prompts investigation (updated)

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Dissent

Tamara Elliott reports:

An investigation has been ordered, following a major privacy breach at a Calgary school.

Parent Jaret Kneller said he was shocked when he opened an e-mail sent by the new principal at George P. Vanier School in the northeast community of Winston Heights-Mountview. Instead of the introductory letter that was supposed to be attached, it contained 52 pages of confidential student records.

Information included e-mails, home phone numbers, names and student ID numbers.

Read more on Global News. This is not the first breach reported by the Calgary Board of Education, although the last breach recorded on this blog for them was back in 2012.

Update: 500 were affected.


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