PowerSchool's departing CEO led the company through an IPO and a $5.6 billion acquisition to go private again.

After investors took PowerSchool private last June for $5.6 billion, it didn’t take long for a harrowing cyber breach to rattle the software giant which boasts 75% market share of the K-12 ...

School districts that were affected by a PowerSchool data hack in December are now facing extortion attempts by cyber criminals, according to the K-12 ed-tech company. PowerSchool, which runs the ...

There’s still over a month left before Charlotte-Mecklenburg students go back to class, and the district is working to ensure ...

Cyber Threat Escalates: PowerSchool Cybercriminal Returns to Extort Individual Schools Months After Massive Data Breach Purportedly Resolved. Jennifer Carroll, Kile Marks, ...

Matthew Lane, 19, was charged with cyber extortion conspiracy, cyber extortion and aggravated identity theft, according to federal prosecutors. PowerSchool, a student data company, was among Lane ...

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 ...

A cyber criminal who successfully extorted the software company PowerSchool for ransom in December 2024 did not delete the stolen data as promised. Now the same culprit appears to be threatening ...

The PowerSchool breach exposed personally identifying and academic data on students and teachers at every North Carolina public school that has ever used PowerSchool dating back to when the state ...

A Massachusetts college student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and ... Item 1 of 2 A computer keyboard lit by a displayed cyber ...

The USDOJ said 19-year-old Matthew Lane was charged with hacking PowerSchool's system and facilitating the 2024 data breach. ... cyber extortion, unauthorized access to protected computers, ...