Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data

[denbesten]

Hoping that ISC2 is aware of this supplier breach and is already asking Pearson what ISC2-related data was stolen.  For example, does the bad actor have my legal name, my email and my palm-vein scan from when I earned my CISSP years ago?

In a statement to BleepingComputer, Pearson confirmed they suffered a cyberattack and that data was stolen, but stated it was mostly "legacy data."

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/education-giant-pearson-hit-by-cyberattack-exposing-c...

[Spirnia]

Wow!

Thank you for sharing.

[Spirnia]

Here's another article on it: https://tribune.com.pk/story/2544917/pearson-hit-by-cyberattack-source-code-customer-info-cloud-data...

[dcontesti]

I have sent a note to the Legal folk at (ISC)2 and asked that they provide comment on members data currently being held by PearsonVUE.

Regards

d

[Spirnia]

This article says, affected users are receiving emails now.

https://en.shiftdelete.net/pearson-faces-major-security-breach-customer-trust-hangs-in-the-balance/

[mariatirado]

Hello All, @denbesten @Spirnia @dcontesti - thank you for sharing this. Our team is currently aware of this incident. Please visit this page for more information: https://www.isc2.org/notice/pearson-incident

[Spirnia]

This is reassuring! Thank you.

[Kyaw_Myo_Oo]

Thanks for sharing @denbesten.

[Kyaw_Myo_Oo]

Thanks for sharing this information with us @mariatirado.

[denbesten]

@mariatirado , Thanks for sharing ISC2's status page.  Good to hear that the current belief is that there is no impact to ISC2 data.