Boston, Mass. – A Massachusetts College student will declare himself guilty of stealing millions of private data and teachers from two US educational technological companies. UU. And extorted him for Ransom, said the office of the United States prosecutor.
The student of Asunción Matthew Lane, 19, is accused of using stolen login credentials to access the computer network of a software and cloud storage company that serves school systems in the United States and abroad, according to the United States prosecutor for the Massachusetts Leah B. Foley district.
Powerschool was not appointed in the judicial documents, but a source familiar with the case confirmed the company’s participation.
According to judicial records, it is alleged that Lane threatened the release of 60 million students and 10 million teachers’ names, telephone numbers, social security numbers, residential addresses and medical stories if the company did not pay a rescue of approximately $ 2.85 million in Bitcoin.
Foley said Lane’s actions “infused fear in parents that their children’s information had leaked in the hands of criminals, everything to put a level in their piracy belt.”
A lawyer who represents LANE did not return a phone call from Associated Press requesting comments on Wednesday. LANE, Sterling, Massachusetts, faces cyber extortion conspiracy, cybernetic extortion and unauthorized access to protected computers and aggravated identity robbery. A guilt audience has not yet been scheduled.
LANE is also accused of extorting a rescue payment of $ 200,000 from another telecommunications company last spring threatening to release customer data.
“Matthew Lane apparently thought he found a way to enrich himself quickly, but this 19 -year -old is now accused of hiding behind his keyboard to obtain unauthorized access to an educational software provider to obtain confidential data that was used in an attempt to extort millions of dollars,” said Kimberly Milka, a special action agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Research Research, Boston Division.
