{"id":214392,"date":"2025-05-21T05:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/19-year-old-accused-of-largest-child-data-breach-in-u-s-agrees-to-plead-guilty"},"modified":"2025-05-21T05:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:11:20","slug":"19-year-old-accused-of-largest-child-data-breach-in-u-s-agrees-to-plead-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/19-year-old-accused-of-largest-child-data-breach-in-u-s-agrees-to-plead-guilty","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old accused of largest child data breach in U.S. agrees to plead guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/19-year-old-accused-of-largest-child-data-breach-in-u-s-agrees-to-plead-guilty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the documents refer to the education company only as \u201cVictim-2\u201d and the U.S. attorney\u2019s office declined to name the victim, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News that it is PowerSchool. The hack of PowerSchool last year is believed to be the largest breach of American children\u2019s sensitive data to date.<\/p>\n<p>According to his plea agreement, Lane admitted obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft and agreed not to challenge a prison sentence shorter than nine years and four months. He got access simply by trying an employee\u2019s stolen username and password combination, the complaint says, echoing a private third-party assessment of the incident previously reported by NBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the documents refer to the education company only as \u201cVictim-2\u201d and the U.S. attorney\u2019s office declined to name the victim, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News that it is PowerSchool. The hack of PowerSchool last year is believed to be the largest breach of American children\u2019s sensitive data to date. According [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-education","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}