More NC schools may face extortion attempts in PowerSchool hack, expert warns

PowerSchool Paid a Hacker's Ransom. Now Cyber Criminals Are Threatening Schools

More extortion attempts are possible, and districts affected by the data breach should be prepared.

More NC schools may face extortion attempts in PowerSchool hack, expert warns

Dozens of school employees in the state have already received threatening emails claiming to have sensitive data. Experts have advice for how they should react and what steps they should take to protect themselves.

Calgary Board of Education said they’ve been warned of possible extortion in PowerSchool data breach

The Calgary Board of Education informed families that while no further information has been accessed, some school boards may be subject to extortion around the release of that data.

PowerSchool Paid Off Hackers After Huge Breach — Now They’re Extorting Districts

Cybercriminals demanded ransom payments from school districts nationwide this week, using millions of K-12 students’ sensitive data as leverage after the files were stolen from education technology giant PowerSchool in a massive cyberattack late last year.  The hackers’ new demands for bitcoin payments, emailed to school officials across the country seemingly at random over the last several days, undercut the ed  tech behemoth’s decision to pay …

POWERSCHOOL CYBER INCIDENT UPDATE AFFECTS FMPSD

Parents with the Fort McMurray Public School Division are being updated on the ongoing cybersecurity incident with PowerSchool. A threat actor is reportedly attempting to extort data from the December 2024 breach. PowerSchool says this is not a new incident, and law enforcement is involved. Earlier this year, PowerSchool paid a ransom, believing it was in the best interest of their customers, but warned that stolen data may not have been deleted…

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Months after it was revealed a massive data breach impacted potentially millions of families and teachers around North Carolina, hackers are now trying to take advantage of the compromised information. Public school employees around the state received threatening emails asking for money in exchange for deleting the information, state education officials said Wednesday. The hackers, officials said, claimed to have access…