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Title: 19-Year-Old Accused of Largest Child Data Breach in US Agrees To Plead
Guilty To Federal Charges

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/21/02621...

A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into one of the top
education tech companies in the United States and stealing tens of millions
of schoolchildren's personal information for profit. From a report: Matthew
Lane, 19, of Worcester County, Massachusetts, signed a plea agreement related
to charges connected to a major hack on an educational technology company
last year, as well as another company, according to court documents published
Tuesday. While the documents refer to the education company only as "Victim-
2" and the U.S. attorney's office declined to name the victim, a person
familiar with the matter told NBC News that it is PowerSchool. The hack of
PowerSchool last year is believed to be the largest breach of American
children's sensitive data to date. According to his plea agreement, Lane
admitted obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated
identity theft and agreed not to challenge a prison sentence shorter than
nine years and four months. He got access simply by trying an employee's
stolen username and password combination, the complaint says, echoing a
private third-party assessment of the incident previously reported by NBC
News.

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