{"id":4111,"date":"2025-05-21T10:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/powerschool-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-student-data-extortion-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:03:38","slug":"powerschool-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-student-data-extortion-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/powerschool-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-student-data-extortion-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty to student data extortion scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty to student data extortion scheme<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to\u00a0a massive cyberattack on PowerSchool that extorted millions of dollars in exchange for not leaking the personal data of millions of students and teachers. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lawrence Abrams<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/powerschool-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-student-data-extortion-scheme\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowerSchool hacker pleads guilty to student data extortion scheme A 19-year-old college student from Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed to plead guilty to\u00a0a massive cyberattack on PowerSchool that extorted millions of dollars in exchange for not leaking the personal data of millions of students and teachers. [&#8230;] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-4111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}