A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to a massive cyberattack on ...

A Massachusetts college student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and ...

Matthew Lane allegedly hacked PowerSchool using stolen credentials and admitted to extorting a telecoms provider.

The PowerSchool breach exposed personally identifying and academic data on students and teachers at every North Carolina ...

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 ...

A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing ...

PowerSchool was not named in the court filings, but multiple U.S. news outlets, each citing a source familiar with the case, reported the company’s involvement.

Folsom, California-based PowerSchool disclosed the breach in January. It has said it learned of it on December 28, 2024 and decided to pay a ransom to prevent data from being made public.

Matthew Lane, 19, was charged with cyber extortion conspiracy, cyber extortion and aggravated identity theft, according to ...