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A 19 -year -old university student will decide on guilty to make a huge penetration against PowerSchool, a popular information system for students that schools use throughout the country. Tuesday, Ministry of Justice Matthew Lin of Massachusetts agreed to acknowledge guilty on four charges, including electronic blackmail, unauthorized access to computers, and strict identification.
Although the Ministry of Justice does not specify PowerSchool by name, the details set by the Ministry of Justice with the attack, such as The infiltrator threat to the leakage Names, email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, birth dates and medical information for dozens of millions of students and teachers if the company does not pay a ransom of $ 2.85 million. A source close to the situation It also tells NBC News The company concerned is PowerSchool.
In January, Powerschool said he became familiar with From violating data involved “unauthorized nomination for some personal information” from its customer support portal, PowerSource. the The company later revealed It prompted the ransom in an attempt to prevent the attacker from making his information public.
However, PowerSchool customers later received additional threats to expose stolen data. “As always with these cases, there has been a risk that bad actors will not delete the data they stole, despite the assurances and evidence that was presented to us,” said Powerschool.
The Ministry of Justice is accused of storming PowerSchool of using stolen logging in and transferring students and teachers to a computer servant in Ukraine.
The agency also accused Lynn of violating and extorting another telecommunications company that the United States was not named.
“As claimed, this defendant stole special information about millions of children and teachers, imposing great financial costs on his victims, and expelling fear in parents that the information of their children was leaked in the hands of criminals – all to put a degree in the hack belt,” US lawyer Leah Foley said in the press statement.