Subj : Publishing giant Scholastic hit by hackers, data on 8 million peo
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Jan 13 2025 15:15:04

Publishing giant Scholastic hit by hackers, data on 8 million people stolen

Date:
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:08:00 +0000

Description:
Stolen Scholastic data will not be made public, the attacker said.

FULL STORY
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tells media they broke into publishing giant Scholastic They then stole 
sensitive information on millions of people The data will not be made public, 
and was stolen "for fun", hacker says 

Publishing and media giant Scholastic has allegedly suffered a cyberattack in 
which it lost sensitive information on millions of people. 

A hacker going by the alias Parasocial claims to have stolen the data through 
an employee portal, including peoples names, email addresses, phone numbers, 
and postal addresses, for US customers and education contacts. This latter 
group makes up roughly a million, out of a total eight million entries. 

In its report, Daily Dot says the database contains more than four million 
unique email addresses. Furthermore, Parasocial provided its researchers with 
a sample, from which they were able to deduce that the data is legitimate. 
They did not reach out to the people directly, but came to some conclusions 
after reading their LinkedIn information and other social media accounts. 
Authentic sample 

Scholastic is known for its books, educational materials, and popular series 
like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Goosebumps. Parents, teachers, and 
administrators, can sign up for an account on the platform. Parents need to 
enter full data on their children, and teachers need to list the school they 
work for. 

The attacker said their motives were simple entertainment, and that they will 
not be publishing the archives on the internet. 

To Scholastic; lol get pwned. This is a lesson to be learned the hard way. 
Dont let your customers take the hit for your security failures, use MFA, 
Daily Dot cited Parasocial as saying, adding they would have taken even more 
information, but were stopped by the servers export limits. 

In a statement to the Daily Dot , a representative for Scholastic said the 
company was investigating the claim. 

Scholastic takes the security of our customers data seriously with extensive 
systems and protocols, and are investigating this claim thoroughly, they 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/publishing-giant-scholastic-hit-by-hack
ers-data-on-8-million-people-stolen


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