<ul><li>Massachusetts student, Matthew D. Lane, to plead guilty to federal charges related to hacking and extorting a major U.S. education tech company.</li><li>Lane accessed network of an unnamed software company, stealing personal information of over 60 million students and 10 million teachers, including sensitive data like Social Security numbers and medical information.</li><li>Lane worked with a co-conspirator to extort about $2.85 million in cryptocurrency from the education software maker.</li><li>The compromised company, likely PowerSchool, paid hackers to delete stolen data, facing subsequent extortion attempts from others claiming the data was not destroyed.</li></ul>

US student agrees to plead guilty to hack affecting tens of millions of students

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