Three college boards within the Larger Toronto Space, together with Canada’s largest public college board, say the non-public data of their college students and a few workers could have been uncovered as a consequence of a “cyber incident.”
The incident includes PowerSchool, an utility used to retailer a spread of scholar data and a few details about school-based workers, says an electronic mail despatched to folks and caregivers by Toronto District College Board’s interim director of schooling, Stacey Zucker, on Wednesday.
The e-mail says the appliance skilled a knowledge breach between Dec. 22 to twenty-eight, 2024, and that the varsity board was knowledgeable about it on Tuesday.
PowerSchool has stated that the info obtained by the unauthorized consumer has since been deleted and no copies have been posted on-line, Zucker’s electronic mail says.
The Info and Privateness Commissioner of Ontario has additionally been notified.
Durham District College Board and Peel District College Boad despatched out emails to folks and caregivers of its college students, saying they have been additionally impacted by the info breach, however have been instructed by PowerSchool that none of their scholar or workers data was compromised.
All three boards say they are nonetheless assessing the precise data that will have been accessed or exported from the appliance.
The boards added that if any private data is discovered to have been affected, they will let anybody impacted know as quickly as attainable.
A spokesperson for the TDSB stated a message in regards to the knowledge breach was despatched out to folks Wednesday and posted to the board’s web site, however didn’t remark additional.
