Scholastic, the educational publisher that produces magazines as well as books, has been hacked.
In an act of apparent mischief, a hacker called “Parasocial” used an employee portal to steal names, email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses of U.S. customers and educational contacts, according to TechRadar and Daily Dot.
The total of those affected is 8 million.
The attacker, who claimed to perform this act for entertainment purposes, does not plan to publish the data on the internet.
Instead, the hacker wrote to Scholastic, “This is a lesson to be learned the hard way. Don’t let your customers take the hit for your security failures, use MFA,” according to Daily Dot.
Daily Dot reports that the Scholastic database contains 4 million unique email addresses.
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