A hacker who stole data about students and teachers from the international PowerSchool database was paid a ransom to destroy the data. Now schools are facing extortion threats. Dreamstime/TNS TNS ...

On a call with customers in January, PowerSchool said it paid ... t dispute that the company was unaware of the hack until the hacker contacted them, paying a ransom, watching the hacker delete ...

Stolen personal student and teacher data that was supposed to be destroyed after a ransom was paid is now being ... from the same hacker who stole the data but can’t conclusively confirm that ...