Hackers steal children’s school photos following a privacy breach

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Calgary Board of Education (CBE) on February 11, advising that her daughter’s school had been hit by the privacy breach.“Pictures were stolen — of children,” Gobeil said incredulously.“It’s a very, very scary situation for me.”The CBE’s email explained that Edge Imaging, a Canadian company that helps schools create yearbooks, informed it on Feb. 9 that its cloud storage service provider had experienced a cyber-security breach, leading to unauthorized access to student images.The CBE said it had been assured that no identifying information had been accessed, and Edge was taking the appropriate steps to find out what happened and how.Gobeil reached out to Edge and said she was told the same thing.“The initial email was, ‘We (Edge) take this very seriously.

The FBI has been involved and we are reporting to the Canadian counterparts as well,'” Gobeil said she was informed.Edge Imaging posts on its website that it is “the largest Canadian-owned and operated school photography and yearbook company” and that it has been in business since 2005.It also said it currently services nearly 3,000 schools and is proud to lead the industry in privacy and security.CEO Jim Agnew told Global News his company was not to blame for this cyber hack.“Recently we were advised that one of our service providers, Entourage (the owner of the “Creator Studio Pro” yearbook software web platform), had a cyber incident on its Canadian AWS cloud server where images from 2022/23 and 2023/24 yearbooks may have been accessed.”“We want to make it clear that at no point were Edge Imaging’s own IT systems accessed or impacted. This incident arises fully from an attack on Entourage’s platform.”Agnew said Edge has made it clear to their vendor that what happened