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In December, leading EdTech company PowerSchool was hacked, exposing the private information of tens of millions of American kids. PowerSchool paid the ransom to keep the data private. That apparently didn't work: somebody started using that data today to extort public schools in North Carolina.

May 7, 2025, 10:19 PM

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