Pearson plc

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Pearson plc

Basic information
Founded	1844
Legal Structure	Public
Industry	Education, Mass Media
Official website	https://plc.pearson.com/

Pearson Inc. is a global Education conglomerate founded in Yorkshire, England in 1844 by Samuel Pearson. It is known for creating and distributing textbooks, digital educational platforms, citations, and other academic resources and services. It has 2 subsidiaries: Pearson; their educational publishing and services branch, and Pearson Edexcel; their examination body.

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• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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Pearson plc data breach (November 2018)

Main article: Pearson plc November 2018 Data Breach

In November 2018 Pearson's digital tool "aimswebPlus", which monitored academic progress of students, was hacked. This leaked student data from 13,000 schools and one million college students. Pearson's wasn't informed about this until March 2019 after an FBI Investigation, and only made a public statement about it months later in July 2019. In the since deleted statement Pearson's Scott Overland said "The exposed data was isolated to first name, last name, and in some instances may include date of birth and/or email address."

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