Canada’s Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has warned parents that hackers may have accessed student data from as far back as the 1980s, following a recent PowerSchool breach. The school board serves approximately 240,000 students each year and stored historical student information in PowerSchool to respond to requests for former student records.
The compromised data includes sensitive information such as students’ names, addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers, as well as more recent data from 2017 that contained contact information for parents and guardians. However, PowerSchool claims to have received confirmation from the hackers that the stolen data was deleted.
But the school board remains uncertain about what this “confirmation” entails, leaving many questions unanswered. The TDSB is urging parents to take steps to protect their children’s sensitive information and is working with PowerSchool to address the breach.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/toronto-school-district-says-40-years-of-student-data-stolen-in-powerschool-breach