A hacker known as “Parasocial” has stolen personal details of millions of Scholastic customers, the Daily Dot reports. The leaked data has 8 million entries, including names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses of users who signed up on Scholastic’s website. (Excluding duplicates, there are more than 4 million unique email addresses.) The hacker told the site that they “gained access after stealing login credentials from an employee hit with malware” and “would have taken more data but were stopped due to an export limit on Scholastic’s server.” Parasocial also gained access to an employee portal with information about staff, invoices, […]
