PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond

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June 07, 2025
PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond

DataBreaches.net reports:

He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands.

Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and pleaded guilty in a Worcester courtroom to hacking an unnamed telecom company and an unnamed edtech vendor, widely known to be PowerSchool.

As per the plea agreement, Lane pleaded guilty to all four counts of the information

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