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A guilty plea in the PowerSchool case still leaves unanswered questions

Posted on June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 by Dissent

On June 6, 19-year-old Matthew D. Lane pleaded guilty in federal court in Massachusetts to one count each of conspiracy to commit cyber extortion, cyber extortion, unauthorized access to protected computers, and aggravated identity theft. The first two charges were related to an unnamed telecom company identified as “Victim 1.” The third and fourth charges…

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ICE takes steps to deport the Australian hacker known as “DR32”

Posted on June 8, 2025June 9, 2025 by Dissent

David Kee Crees has been detained by Denver Homeland Security – ICE to be deported. The Australian national was recently released from a federal prison after pleading guilty to hacking and other charges. The strange case of “DR32” just got a bit stranger. It looks like the Australian national will get a plane ticket back…

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Nigerian National Sentenced To More Than Five Years For Hacking, Fraud, And Identity Theft Scheme

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Dissent

Jay Clayton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Christopher G. Raia, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that KINGSLEY UCHELUE UTULU was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe to 63 months in prison for…

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Texas DOT investigates breach of crash report records, sends notification letters

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Dissent

Randall Case reports:  A compromise of an account has led to improper downloads of a large number of crash records, the Texas Department of Transportation announced Friday. On May 12, TxDOT identified unusual activity in its Crash Records Information System (CRIS) and further investigation revealed the activity originated from an account that was compromised and…

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PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty, released on personal recognizance bond

Posted on June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 by Dissent

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…

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New evidence links long-running hacking group to Indian government

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Dissent

Daryna Antoniuk reports: Researchers say they have uncovered new evidence linking a long-running threat actor known as Bitter to the Indian government….  In a two-part report released this week, researchers from U.S.-based Proofpoint and Switzerland-based Threatray said their new findings are based on a series of campaigns conducted between October 2024 and April 2025. During this period, Bitter —…

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