TDSB Cyber Breach: Ransom, Data, and Digital Mayhem
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 4:21 pm
In a cybersecurity fiasco, the Toronto District School Board is still grappling with compromised student data. Despite ransom demands—and even payments—the stolen information wasn’t wiped clean, leaving parents and officials both baffled and frustrated over lax digital housekeeping.
Canada's largest school board and others across North America have received ransom demands connected to the massive PowerSchool cybersecurity breach that hit during the winter break — this after the company paid hackers a ransom to delete the stolen data.
Le plus grand conseil scolaire du Canada affirme avoir reçu une demande de rançon pour le vol de données concernant des élèves en décembre dernier, même si l’entreprise à l’origine du logiciel concerné a versé une rançon dans l’espoir de récupérer ces informations.
PowerSchool confirms that it paid a ransom after the December 2024 breach, in hopes of preventing public release of the stolen data
The Toronto District School Board says in a letter to parents and caregivers that it recently learned the data was not destroyed and a "threat actor" has demanded ransom.
TORONTO - Canada's largest school board says it has received a ransom demand over student data that was stolen last December, even though the company behind the affected software paid ransom in hopes of securing that information.
Data stolen during a cybersecurity breach at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) was not destroyed despite a ransom being paid, the school board has learned. Student information, that included names, birth dates, health card numbers and medical information, dating back to 1985 was compromised…
Student info stolen in PowerSchool data breach not deleted despite ransom being paid: TDSB CP24
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