A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to a massive cyberattack on ...

A Massachusetts college student has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and ...

Commissioner Kerry Hatfield says she wants to make sure the province has taken adequate steps to prevent another data breach.

Matthew Lane, 19, was charged with cyber extortion conspiracy, cyber extortion and aggravated identity theft, according to ...

In January, PowerSchool, which holds data on around 60 million North American kids and about 10 million teachers, disclosed a ...

PowerSchool said that in late December ... has confirmed suffering a cyberattack resulting in the theft of sensitive student and teacher information. Furthermore, the company decided to pay ...

Provincial privacy commissioner, Kerry Hatfield will focus her investigation on the Department of Education’s use of ...

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 ...

One of the biggest unknowns about the PowerSchool cyberattack is who was responsible. The company has been in communication with the hacker but has refused to reveal their identity, if known.