minus-squareSpaceman9000@infosec.pubtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•"PowerSchool has informed us that they have taken action with the hackers to ensure the unauthorized data was deleted without any further replication or dissemination."linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoIt boils down to their reputation, which is honestly the only thing they truly have. If they have a reputation of leaking date afterwards nobody is going to pay in the future. So afaik, they don’t resell or give it away. They also send “proof of deletion”, but how fool proof that is is another question entirely. linkfedilink
minus-squareSpaceman9000@infosec.pubtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•"PowerSchool has informed us that they have taken action with the hackers to ensure the unauthorized data was deleted without any further replication or dissemination."linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoIt is linkfedilink
It boils down to their reputation, which is honestly the only thing they truly have.
If they have a reputation of leaking date afterwards nobody is going to pay in the future.
So afaik, they don’t resell or give it away. They also send “proof of deletion”, but how fool proof that is is another question entirely.