Canada's largest school board announced that hackers may have accessed nearly 40 years of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach.
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) said in a letter sent to parents this week that the data breach affected all students enrolled in the district from September 1985 to December 2024.
The school board, which serves about 240,000 students each year, said it stores past student information in PowerSchool “to respond to former student records requests.”
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.
The TDSB said Power School notified the board that it had allegedly received confirmation that the data stolen from the hackers had been deleted. Power School did not comment on what kind of confirmation it received.