Tag: extortion
PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole ‘all’ historical student and teacher data
U.S. school districts affected by the recent cyberattack on edtech giant PowerSchool have told TechCrunch that hackers accessed “all” of their historical student...
Record-breaking ransoms and breaches: A timeline of ransomware in 2024
It was another record-breaking year for ransomware. When file-locking malware wasn’t causing widespread disruption, like downing online services and lasting outages, ransomware was...
FBI takes down ransomware gang that hacked dozens of companies
The FBI said Monday it seized the servers of a ransomware and extortion gang called Radar (aka Dispossessor). At the time of writing,...