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 ...

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 ...

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.

PowerSchool is warning that the hacker behind ... This was recently seen in UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare ransomware attack, in which they paid a ransom to the BlackCat ransomware gang to ...