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PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty to student data extortion scheme
A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to a massive cyberattack on PowerSchool that extorted millions of dollars in exchange for not leaking the personal data of millions of students and teachers.
US Teen to Plead Guilty in PowerSchool Extortion Campaign
In an official document published on May 20 by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Matthew D. Lane, a student at Assumption University in Worcester and a resident of Sterling, Massachusetts, has been accused of hacking into the computer networks of two US-based companies and extorting them for ransoms.
Threat actors behind the 2024 PowerSchool data breach continue to extort individual schools, despite the education software ...
Teachers report that bad actors are now targeting them with threatening emails demanding payment following a massive 2024 breach affecting schools across the US and Canada.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old college student from Massachusetts, with hacking PowerSchool's system and facilitating the 2024 data breach.
Threat actors are trying to extort some public schools by threatening them with teacher and student information stolen in a December 2024 data breach of PowerSchool’s Student Information System ...
Several other schools in North America received extortion notes, including across North Carolina, per local media. PowerSchool confirmed that it had paid the ransom at the time, saying the ...
It comes nearly five months after a hacker stole data from PowerSchool ... the breach isn't over "certainly suggests that paying any extortion demand is a very weak bet that you know they're ...
after several school districts reported further extortion attempts. PowerSchool said Wednesday that it had paid the ransom “in the days following” the discovery of hackers in its system on Dec ...
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