Massachusetts man He agreed to acknowledge guilt To penetrate one of the best educational technology companies in the United States and steal tens of millions of personal information for school children for profit.
Matthew Lin, 19, from Worsester Province, Massachusetts, signed the approval agreement related to the charges of a major penetration of an educational technology company last year, as well as another company, according to the court documents published on Tuesday.
While the documents refer to the education company only in the name of “the victim 2” and the US Public Prosecutor’s Office refused to name the victim, he told a person familiar with NBC News that the company is PowerSchool. PowerSchool last year is believed to be the largest breach of children’s sensitive data so far.
According to his agreement, Lin admitted to obtaining information from a mass computer and stealing tight identity, and agreed not to defy the prison sentence shorter than nine and four months. Al -Shukawi says that he was able to simply reach the employee username and lines of the employee, a reference for a special evaluation of the third party of the accident that was previously reported by NBC News.
Companies such as PowerSchool, who develop programs to help schools in students management, data and educational programming, have grown in recent years, especially during the Covid’s pandemic when many schools have turned into a remote learning. Cyber security experts have warned that with increasingly numbering student information, it becomes a target for criminal infiltrators and identity thieves.
Last December, PowerSchool realized that someone had stormed the customer database and downloaded personal information – including names, addresses, birthdays and in some cases, social security numbers and medical information amounting to 62 million children – when they received blackmail about $ 2.85 million in Bitcoin.
Powerschool pushed the infiltrators to get a video of them claiming to delete their only copy of the data. But the Internet criminals have since sent emails blackmail to schools in Canada and North Carolina proving that they have these data.
“We don’t think this is a new accident, because data samples are identical to the data that was previously stolen in December, PowerSchool said in a press statement on May 7.
According to the complaint, Lyn was responsible for PowerSchool, although he does not explain whether he, someone else or a group responsible for extortion efforts. The complaint is cited as an unveiled participant for Lane’s and other internet criminals who have not been named and who worked together to penetrate and blackmail another company.
