The attack — which PowerSchool said affected a subset of institutions using its Student Information System (SIS) — exposed personally identifiable information (PII), including the Social Security numbers of children as young as five. While not all districts were impacted, the scale of the breach made it one of the most significant cyberattacks in education history.
Lane pleaded guilty in June to cyber extortion conspiracy, unauthorized access to protected computers, and aggravated identity theft.
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During sentencing before U.S. District Judge Margaret Guzman, Lane appeared remorseful, admitting, “I robbed actual people and their families of their sense of security … I deserve to be punished.” He added that his crimes took place during an “extremely dark time in my life,” and that he has since become “sober not just from drugs, but from the internet as well.”
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