Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-07-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: Pearson PLC
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Pearson PLC, the British maker of educational software, warns school districts that a 2018 data breach has exposed details on thousands of students, chiefly in the U.S.