Body: A U.S. judge has handed down a four-year prison sentence to Matthew Lane, the hacker behind the December 2024 breach of PowerSchool, which exposed sensitive personal data of millions of students and educators across Canada and the United States.

Judge Margaret Guzman of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts also ordered Lane to pay more than US$14 million in restitution and a US$25,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The decision follows Lane’s guilty plea in June to charges of cyber extortion, aggravated identity theft and unauthorized access to protected computers.

According to prosecutors, Lane gained entry into PowerSchool’s systems using stolen credentials from a prior telecommunications breach and intended to extort the company, threatening to release studen

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