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PowerSchool Paid Ransom to Hackers After Breach
Software maker said it paid its attackers even as the true size of the theft is still unknown.
PowerSchool data breach leads to school extortion attempts
A threat actor has contacted multiple school districts demanding payments related to student and staff data stolen in a December breach.
PowerSchool hack: School boards face new ransom demands months after leak
At least three school boards in Canada are reporting having been contacted for ransom following the PowerSchool data breach in December 2024.
Threat actors claim to have access to North Carolina student and teacher data from PowerSchool breach, officials say
On Wednesday, several school and NCDPI employees across North Carolina received messages from threat actors claiming to have ...
Government Technology10h
Forsyth County Schools Warn Students, Staff About Hacker Threats
The North Carolina district learned earlier this year that a data breach of the software company PowerSchool impacted an ...
Education Week1d
PowerSchool Paid a Hacker’s Ransom. Now Cyber Criminals Are Threatening Schools
School districts that were affected by a PowerSchool data hack in December are now facing extortion attempts by cyber ...
School boards hit with ransom demands linked to PowerSchool cyberattack
Canada's largest school board and others across North America have received ransom demands connected to the massive ...
Winston-Salem Journal1d
Forsyth schools: 150,000 teachers, students could feel impact of data breach
"It is not yet clear if the same threat actor is responsible for both incidents. However, PowerSchool shared in a statement ...
Mississauga.com2d
PowerSchool data breach has led to ransom attempt, says Peel District School Board
PowerSchool has ... informed us that an unauthorized user attempted to contact multiple school districts,” says PDSB ...
PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom, but now schools say they are being extorted
Months after the hacked education software maker PowerSchool paid a hacker’s ransom to delete the company’s banks of stolen ...
PowerSchool hacker now extorting individual school districts
PowerSchool is warning that the hacker behind its December cyberattack is now individually extorting schools, threatening to release the previously stolen student and teacher data if a ransom is not ...