{"id":18961,"date":"2019-08-01T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T08:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18961"},"modified":"2019-08-01T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T08:52:42","slug":"pearson-cyberattack-13000-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/pearson-cyberattack-13000-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson admits to cyberattack affecting more than 13,000 accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent press release, <\/b>Pearson<\/b><\/a>, one of the leading academic publishers in the United Kingdom, has admitted that its\u2019 online platform AIMSweb has fallen victim to a cyberattack. <\/b>The data of more than thirteen thousand student and teacher accounts were accessed during the attack.<\/span>
\nAccording to a company statement, <\/span>everyone whose personal information was affected by the attack has been notified<\/b>, and the breach in security has been analyzed and resolved. The attack occurred back in November of last year, and in March 2019 the publishing house was informed by the <\/span>FBI<\/span><\/a> that their system had been compromised.\u00a0<\/span>
\nTo compensate users for the stolen data, <\/span>Person has decided to offer all affected users access to credit monitoring services for free.<\/b> Currently, the exact number of individuals whose data was uncovered has not been announced, as some of the affected accounts contain thousands of students.<\/span>
\nHowever, what is more concerning, is that <\/span>cyberattacks like this one are becoming a daily occurrence in the educational sector.<\/b><\/p>\n

Cyberattacks on academic systems<\/span><\/h3>\n

Just yesterday, the school year for the whole Houston County district in Alabama was <\/span>postponed<\/span><\/a>, because of a malware attack, which cannot be resolved. Last week, Lancaster University in the United Kingdom <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a> that their databases were hacked and the information of thousands of former, present, and future students was accessed.<\/span>
\nPersonal information is extremely sensitive, and hackers are well aware of that, which is why they turn to educational databases, as they are full of student and teacher data. <\/span>Most school archives contain names, telephone numbers, email addresses, and even home addresses, which means that they are full of confidential personal details.\u00a0<\/b>
\nConsidering the rise in cyberattacks in the past few months, many educational institutions have started revising the security of their networks, in an effort to prepare against such attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent press release, Pearson, one of the leading academic publishers in the United Kingdom, has admitted that its\u2019 online platform AIMSweb has fallen victim to a cyberattack. The data of more than thirteen thousand student and teacher accounts were accessed during the attack. According to a company statement, everyone whose personal information was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[71,372,1082],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}