‘Threat actor’ attempted to extort school boards after PowerSchool breach: CBE

US school districts facing extortion attempt after hack, software provider says

By AJ Vicens

School districts hit with extortion attempts months after education tech data breach

PowerSchool is one of the largest education software providers in North America, and it was hit with a major data breach in 2024.

‘Threat actor’ attempted to extort school boards after PowerSchool breach: CBE

The Calgary Board of Education says it’s been told a “threat actor” has been attempting to extort school boards impacted by the breach of staff and student data earlier this year.

PowerSchool data breach has led to ransom attempt, says Peel District School Board

“PowerSchool has ... informed us that an unauthorized user attempted to contact multiple school districts," says PDSB education director.

PowerSchool Customers Hit By Downstream Extortion Threats - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

Five months after education software vendor PowerSchool paid an unnamed threat actor a ransom in exchange for the deletion of sensitive stolen data, some of the company’s customers are now receiving extortion demands.  A threat actor, who may or not be the same criminal group behind the attack, has contacted four school district customers of PowerSchool in the past few days, CyberScoop has learned, threatening to leak data if they don’t pay.  Th…

PowerSchool paid a hacker’s extortion demand, but now school district clients are being extorted anyway (2)

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… Introduction to Malware Binary Triage (IMBT) Course Looking to level up your skills? Get 10% off usin…