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US student agrees to plead guilty to hack affecting tens of millions of students
Prosecutors say the hacker stole information on 60 million students, an incident that matches the data breach at PowerSchool.
A Massachusetts student has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges relating to hacking and extorting one of the largest U.S. education tech companies, prosecutors confirmed Tuesday. While the company was not named, federal prosecutors described specific details matching the data breach at education software maker PowerSchool, which revealed in January that it had been hacked as far back as August and September 2024. The breach affected schools located mostly across the United States and Canada, which use the PowerSchool software to manage student grades, attendance, and other personal and health information.
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