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May 20 2025 PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty to student data extortion scheme

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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. [...]

Posted by Lawrence Abrams on Tue 20 May 2025 in BleepingComputer.

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