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🚨 PowerSchool Hacker Sentenced to Prison
Matthew Lane, 19, sentenced to 4 years after hacking PowerSchool and exposing the data of over 60 million students and 9 million teachers. Lane must pay $14M restitution + $25K fine.

💬 How should EdTech companies respond to protect massive amounts of student data?

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deltatux

May 7, 2025

PowerSchool, the cloud platform provider providing services to school boards across Canada & the US has confirmed that even though a ransom has been paid to the cybercriminals holding the data ransom & received assurances that the data was destroyed, the criminals have returned demanding for more money as they have not actually destroyed the data.

This unfortunately highlights the biggest risk when it comes to paying ransom for data destruction, threat actors can always come back demanding for more once they realize exactly how valuable the data is.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/student-data-obtained-in-a-cyberattack-on-gta-school-boards-was-supposed-to-be-destroyed/article_cf2901bb-3fcc-4f84-ad7b-32399076b7e5.html

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Student data obtained in a cyberattack on GTA school boards was supposed to be destroyed. It wasn’t

TDSB tells parents that PowerSchool “confirmed that they have paid a ransom in an attempt to secure deletion” but now there’s a new ransom demand.

Toronto Star

Mark T. Tomczak Jan 25, 2025

When I read about students, parents, and teachers having their PII stolen in the PowerSchool data breach, I'm reminded of the letter my high-school employer had to send me disclosing that my tax information was stolen... Form a pallet of documents. As in, crooks broke into a warehouse and made off with the federally-mandated-auditable records from two decades ago.

Your data is not secure. It's not secure because it's not securable.

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Francis Mangion (M)Jan 15, 2025

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"PowerSchool Data Breach Victims Say Hackers Stole 'All' Historical Student and Teacher Data."

#PersonalDataExposed #PowerSchoolHack #PowerSchoolBreach #UnauthorizedAccessToSIS #CyberattackOnEducation

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/01/15/1456240/powerschool-data-breach-victims-say-hackers-stole-all-historical-student-and-teacher-data

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PowerSchool Data Breach Victims Say Hackers Stole 'All' Historical Student and Teacher Data - Slashdot

15 Jan 2025, 16:59

https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/113833433859094873

PowerSchool Data Breach Victims Say Hackers Stole 'All' Historical Student and Teacher Data - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed "all" of their historical student and teacher data stored in their student information systems. PowerSchool, whose school records softw...