19-Year-Old to Plead Guilty to Hacking Charges After Data Breach of Millions of Schoolchildren

A massachusetts explained the guilt, including a cloud company, including a cloud company, who hacked a series of teenagers.

Justice Department on Wednesday said 19-year-old Matthew D. Sterling, Massachusetts, a number of high-profile hacking episodes closed an agreement. The former college student was culprit as well as accusations on the accusations of aggravated identity and other crimes.

Lane is accused of hacking a company personally using the stolen worker login credentials. This company is not in court documents, nbc reported The victim’s PowerSchool, a cloud and analytical provider, a cloud and analyst that says K-12 schools in North America. The NBC describes it as “one of the best technological education companies” in the country. Lane’s concessions last year led to the abduction of information about ten million children. Lane’s stolen information, “Social security numbers, birth and secret medical information, among other information and faculties, include confidential medical information between students and faculties”, the company’s network.

After a while, the company received the message of usurpation after the stolen data. This message “leakage. The world is between telephone numbers, phone numbers, phone numbers, social security numbers, birth, medical information and passwords, 10 million teachers (about $ 2.85 million teachers),” Write the Federal Prosecutors Gizmodo for PowerSchool.

According to the Department of Justice, Lane was part of a criminal group that steals information from a telecommunications company and then to praise the company up to $ 200,000. It is not known to whom the telecom is not known, so it is said that an anonymous email was used to contact Telecom after the strip, which is exposed to a fork or degrading information on a ransom in the ransom. Lane, the only ones with a copy of this information. [or] Your executives and employees will see the same fate. . . . Decide properly and pay the ransom. If you take my feet, it will be leaked. “

“Matthew Lane, he thought he was quick to get rich in a 19 year, but this 19-year-old is accused of hiding behind the keyboard to obtain a 19-year-old educational software,” said FBI official Kimberly Milka.