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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 ...
When PowerSchool announced in January that it fell victim to a massive data breach at the end of 2024, it assured the thousands of schools and over ...
PowerSchool was not named in the court filings ... Lane is also accused of extorting a $200,000 ransom payment from another telecommunications company last spring by threatening to release ...
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