<ul><li>19-year-old college student Matthew Lane from Massachusetts is set to plead guilty to a massive hack on PowerSchool, a student information system, involving cyber extortion and unauthorized access to protected computers.</li><li>Lane threatened to leak personal data of millions of students and teachers unless a $2.85 million ransom was paid to prevent exposure of names, email addresses, Social Security numbers, and medical information.</li><li>PowerSchool faced a data breach affecting personal information from its customer support portal, PowerSource, paid the ransom to prevent data exposure, but still received threats of data exposure.</li><li>The Department of Justice accused Lane of breaking into PowerSchool using stolen login credentials, transferring data to a server in Ukraine, breaching and extorting another US-based telecom company, and causing financial costs and fear among parents.</li></ul>

19-year-old student to plead guilty to huge school database hack

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