Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years’ worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach.
In a letter sent to parents this week, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) said that the data breach affected all students enrolled in the district between September 1985 and December 2024.
The school board, which serves approximately 240,000 students each year, said it stored historical student information in PowerSchool “to respond to requests for former student records.”
The compromised data includes students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers. More recent data from 2017, also taken in the breach, included contact information for parents and guardians, the board said.
TDSB said PowerSchool informed the board that the company received alleged confirmation from the hackers that the stolen data was deleted. PowerSchool has not commented on what confirmation it has received.
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