09 May, 2026

Data breach at edtech giant McGraw Hill affects 13.5 million accounts

The ShinyHunters extortion group has leaked data from 13.5 million McGraw Hill user accounts, stolen after breaching the company’s Salesforce environment earlier this month. Founded in 1909, McGraw Hill is a leading global educational publisher with annual revenue of $2.2 billion, which provides education content and solutions for PreK–12, higher education, and professional learning. The […]

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McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat

Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to GeekFeed that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. The company assured that the breach did not affect its Salesforce accounts, customer databases, or internal systems, and that the amount of exposed data is limited and non-sensitive. “McGraw-Hill recently identified unauthorized access to […]

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