Phishing attempts target staff and students at Waterloo Region District School Board

The Waterloo Region District School Board offices appears in a CTV file photo. (Dan Lauckner/CTV Kitchener)

Waterloo Region District School Board staff and students are getting an unexpected lesson in online safety.

The school board has put out a warning about recent phishing attempts targeting their community.

In a post online, the public school board said a number of email accounts belonging to staff and students received fake job offers, including links to suspicious Google forms.

The emails did not originate within the school board and were part of an external phishing scam, however, the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) said they are not aware of any accounts that have been compromised.

The WRDSB has blocked the email addresses and links involved in the scam and reported the fraudulent forms to Google. The fake emails have also been removed from students’ inboxes. A security review is underway.

Families with the WRDSB are encouraged to delete any unexpected job offer emails and let the school board know if anyone clicked a link or shared personal information by emailing [e-mail].