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Canada’s largest school board says hackers recently accessed nearly 40 years of student data. PowerSchool violation.
In letter sent to parents this weekThe Toronto District School Board (TDSB) said the data breach affected all students enrolled in the district between September 1985 and December 2024.
The school board, which serves about 240,000 students each year, said it stores historical student data in PowerSchool to respond to requests for past student records.
The compromised information includes students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers. More recent data from 2017 also includes contact information for parents and guardians in relation to the breach, the board said.
The TDSB said PowerSchool told its board that it had received confirmation that the company had removed the allegedly stolen data from the hackers. PowerSchool did not comment on which approval it received.