Hacker says the theft was intended to serve as a lesson
Scholastic, a giant publisher of textbooks and Harry Potter,has reportedly suffered a data breach exposing records on millions of people. But for now, it appears the stolen datawon't be made public or sold.
The hack happened in January and stole around 8 million entriesinclude emails, home addresses, names andphone numbers, but not every entry includes all that information, news websiteThe Daily Dot reported on Friday.
More than 4.2 million emails were exposed in the breach and education clients account for around 1.05 million of the roughly 8 million entries, according to The Daily Dot.
The hacker, named "Parasocial," showed the data to The Daily Dot, which the hacker said they acquired after an employee's computer was infected with malware.
Parasocial told The Daily Dotthey don't plan to make the information public but for the hack to serve as a warning about Scholastic's poor security.
Scholastic didn't immediately respond to ConsumerAffairs's request for comment.
Last week, Scholastic told The Daily Dotit was investigating.
Scholastic takes the security of our customers data seriously with extensive systems and protocols, and are investigating this claim thoroughly, the company said.
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Posted: 2025-01-13 16:06:18
