The California Office of the Attorney General reported a data breach involving The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. on May 13, 2020. The breach occurred on February 17, 2020, due to unauthorized access to a server, which exposed usernames and hashed and salted passwords for online accounts on chronicle.com, philanthropy.com, and chroniclevitae.com. The number of individuals affected is unknown.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-189946
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/the-chronicle-of-higher-education
"id": "the630072525",
"linkid": "the-chronicle-of-higher-education",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "2/2020",
"severity": "25",
"impact": "1",
"explanation": "Attack without any consequences"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Education',
'name': 'The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc.',
'type': 'Company'}],
'attack_vector': 'Unauthorized Access',
'data_breach': {'type_of_data_compromised': ['usernames',
'hashed and salted passwords']},
'date_detected': '2020-02-17',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2020-05-13',
'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported a data '
'breach involving The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc. on '
'May 13, 2020. The breach occurred on February 17, 2020, due '
'to unauthorized access to a server, which exposed usernames '
'and hashed and salted passwords for online accounts on '
'chronicle.com, philanthropy.com, and chroniclevitae.com. The '
'number of individuals affected is unknown.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['usernames', 'hashed and salted passwords'],
'systems_affected': ['chronicle.com',
'philanthropy.com',
'chroniclevitae.com']},
'references': [{'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'title': 'Data Breach at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc.',
'type': 'Data Breach'}