Cyber attack

Free identity protection is being offered to London District Catholic school board students and staff whose personal data may have been breached by hackers, officials say. The cyber security breach occurred Dec. 28, according to a statement released by tech firm PowerSchool. In a statement, the board says the hack involved PowerSchool’s so-called student information […]

Data of some students and staff at the London District Catholic school board was compromised in a breach involving software used by schools across North America to store student information. The board notified staff and students Friday about the data breach of the PowerSchool Student Information System, a program used by boards in Canada and […]

London Public Library is still not fully back on its feet after a cyberattack crippled services four months ago, an official says.

Three months after a cyberattack shook five Southwestern Ontario hospitals, efforts are still months away from fully restoring systems at Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare. Read More

London's library system has nearly fully recovered from a cyberattack that crippled many of its services for several weeks, officials said Friday, noting they paid nothing to the hackers behind it. Read More

Hackers behind the cyberattack on London Public Library obtained the personal information of some employees, but there's no indication the personal information of patrons has been compromised, the library says. Read More

The London Public Library hopes all its services will be up and running again by the end of the week, as three smaller branches shuttered nearly three weeks by a cyberattack finally reopen. Read More

Public internet use at London's library branches – a bulwark of its services to low-income residents – was restored on Friday, nine days after a cyberattack crippled all systems and shuttered three branches. Read More

London Public Library officials have confirmed it was a “cyberattack” that has shut down branches and hampered services, damage they're working to undo with the help of an outside security firm. Read More

The head of the London Public Library is refusing to say if the "cyber incident" that shut three branches and took down its website, phones and emails five days ago is a cyberattack, as officials work to restore services. Read More

The London Public Library is asking patrons not to return books as it works to recover from an unspecified “cyber incident” that has pulled many of its services offline for more than four days. Read More

Some of the London Public Library services crippled by a "cyber incident" could be restored on Friday as officials continued to stop short of clarifying whether the outages were caused by hackers. Read More