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MSCS board renews contract with PowerSchool while suing them

Posted on May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 by Dissent

Brian Didlake reports: Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members approved a multi-million dollar contract to continue doing business with a company they’re suing in court. The school board announced it was filing a lawsuit against PowerSchool earlier this month after thousands of students’ personal information was leaked. Now, board members said that was in the past…

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Massachusetts hacker to plead guilty to PowerSchool data breach (1)

Posted on May 20, 2025May 21, 2025 by Dissent

Nate Raymond reports: A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing data pertaining to millions of students and teachers that hackers used to extort the company and school districts into paying ransoms. Matthew Lane, 19, entered into a plea deal on Tuesday to resolve charges filed…

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$28 million in Texas’ cybersecurity funding for schools left unspent

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Dissent

How often have we heard about cyberattacks affecting Texas school districts? And how often have we heard that k-12 districts are underfunded for cybersecurity and/or don’t have trained personnel?  Yet when they are offered money, many districts have not availed themselves of the support. Why?   Brian New, Lexi Salazar, Scott Fralicks, and Mike Lozano have a somewhat…

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Cyberattacks on Long Island Schools Highlight Growing Threat

Posted on May 14, 2025 by Dissent

I’d called it an “ongoing threat,” but …. Maggie MacAlpine reports: In a concerning development, over 20 school districts across Long Island have fallen victim to cyberattacks, compromising the personal data of more than 10,000 students. According to state education records, 28 incidents were reported in 2024 alone, affecting districts such as Great Neck, Smithtown,…

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Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports: Education giant Pearson suffered a cyberattack, allowing threat actors to steal corporate data and customer information, BleepingComputer has learned. Pearson is a UK-based education company and one of the world’s largest providers of academic publishing, digital learning tools, and standardized assessments. The company works with schools, universities, and individuals in over 70…

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PowerSchool paid a hacker’s extortion demand, but now school district clients are being extorted anyway (3)

Posted on May 7, 2025May 8, 2025 by Dissent

Here’s today’s reminder not to waste your money paying criminals to delete data. After PowerSchool became aware of a hack in December 2024, they paid the then-unnamed attacker(s) to delete data. They subsequently informed their affected clients that they had observed the data deletion and believed that the data had been deleted, and that there…

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