Pearson, a leading education provider, experienced a significant cyberattack that compromised its corporate data and customer information. The UK-based company, known for its academic publishing and digital learning services, confirmed the breach but emphasized that most of the data affected was 'legacy data.' The breach occurred after threat actors accessed Pearson's developer environment, exploiting an exposed Personal Access Token found in a public GitLab configuration file. The potential connection to the recent PowerSchool attack remains unknown as investigations continue.
Education giant Pearson confirmed that they suffered a cyberattack impacting their corporate data and customer information, which they described as largely 'legacy data.'
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