The E.W. Scripps Company

The Maine Office of the Attorney General reported on February 16, 2022, that the E.W. Scripps Company experienced an external system breach (hacking) on January 12, 2022, affecting 165 Maine residents and a total of 54,813 individuals. The breach involved unauthorized access to usernames and passwords for the website spellingbee.com.

Source: https://www.maine.gov/agviewer/content/ag/985235c7-cb95-4be2-8792-a1252b4f8318/025bd9db-2779-4243-8a0c-3c43adc0cc1f.shtml

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-e-w-scripps-company

"id": "the206072525",
"linkid": "the-e-w-scripps-company",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "1/2022",
"severity": "25",
"impact": "1",
"explanation": "Attack without any consequences"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 54813,
                        'industry': 'Media',
                        'name': 'E.W. Scripps Company',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Hacking',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 54813,
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['usernames', 'passwords']},
 'date_detected': '2022-01-12',
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2022-02-16',
 'description': 'The E.W. Scripps Company experienced an external system '
                'breach (hacking) affecting usernames and passwords for the '
                'website spellingbee.com.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['usernames', 'passwords'],
            'systems_affected': ['spellingbee.com']},
 'references': [{'date_accessed': '2022-02-16',
                 'source': 'Maine Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'title': 'E.W. Scripps Company Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}