More than a million people, including students, school staff, and parents, have been affected following a data breach at Mathspace, according to the learning provider.
The company said, in a blog post, “unauthorised parties had accessed an internal reporting system used by Mathspace” and the exposed information included names and email addresses.
It said the attackers accessed the system between August 10 and August 27 during a period when a security patch had not been installed.
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Source: ABC News
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