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 ...

Now individual school districts extorted by fiends An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers ...

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

London, UK-headquartered education giant Pearson has confirmed a customer data breach after malicious actors gained ...

Threat actors behind the 2024 PowerSchool data breach continue to extort individual schools, despite the education software ...

Nearly 500,000 current and former Memphis-Shelby County Schools students a d almost 24,000 faculty had information taken in a ...

The sector reportedly takes an average of 4.8 months to report attacks — higher than for business, government and healthcare.

Between 2021 and 2024, ransomware attacks on K-12 institutions nearly doubled from 62 attacks in 2021 to 116 attacks in 2024. Multiple other districts have sued PowerSchool in the same court ...