PowerSchool paid the infiltrator ransom, but schools now say they are blackmailing

Months of the PowerSchool Education Maker, the Education Maker, paid a ransom of the infiltrators to delete the company’s banks from the stolen students’ data, at least one school area says it is now blackmailed by a person who said the data has not been destroyed.

PowerSchool, which provides the K-12 program for thousands of schools to support 60 million students across North America, was hacked in December 2024 using one stolen credit data, which which is The infiltrator allowed widespread access To PowerSchool stores for student data and personal teacher, including social security and health data numbers.

The company said at that time The infiltrator had paid a ransom to delete the stolen dataBut it has repeatedly refused to reveal the amount he paid.

Now, the Toronto County School Council, which serves about 240,000 students every year, said, said every year, In a statement Earlier this week, “he received a call from a threat representative calling for a ransom using data from the previously reported accident.”

Several other schools in North America have received blackmail notes, including throughout North Carolina, For all local media.

Powerschool confirmed that it had paid the ransom at the time, saying that the company “thought it was the best option to prevent data from advertising.”

Some specialists in cybersecurity and law enforcement have thwarted the victims long ago from payment of ransom, as there are no guarantees that infiltrators will adhere to their speech when demanding deleting stolen data. As it becomes clear from the past ransom and Extortion Accidents, some gangs were later found that they retained huge quantities of stolen victims’ data, often Return affected individuals with additional extortion attempts.

In a joint statement with the customers this week, which was seen by Techcrunch, PowerSchool said she recently realized that the threat representative had communicated with some SIS PowerSchool customers in an attempt to blackmail them using data “from December 2024 breach.

PowerSchool, TECHCRUNCH, told PowerSchool, TECHCRUNCH that this does not believe that this is a new accident because “data samples coincide with the previously stolen data in December.”

PowerSchool did not say after the number of individuals who are affected by the breach of data. I told many educational areas that used PowerSchool at the time of violation.

In the case of the schools in Toronto, the stolen records date back to at least 2009, and are likely to affect millions of people.