Matthew Lane

July 19, 2025

State extends parts of PowerSchool contract

July 10, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — At a called meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Education on June 23, the board voted unanimously to approve a short-term contract extension with PowerSchool, the student data system used by the state that suffered a global data breach near the end of […]

Plea agreement ties 19-year-old to PowerSchool data breach

May 30, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — A 19-year-old has pleaded guilty to cybercrimes, including the December 2024 data breach of PowerSchool, a student and teacher information database system with 55 million users worldwide. Matthew D. Lane, a resident of […]