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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. ~~{{Ph-C-Int}}~~

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.

==Consumer-impact summary==

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==Incidents==

===Pearson plc data breach (''November 2018'')===

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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singer |first=Alan |date=November 14, 2019 |title=Data Breach At Pearson Mis-Education |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/14/1899339/-Data-Breech-At-Pearson-Mis-Education |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307111657/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/14/1899339/-Data-Breech-At-Pearson-Mis-Education |archive-date=March 7, 2020 |access-date=August 15, 2025 |work=Daily Kos}}</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite web |last=Overland |first=Scott |date=July 31, 2019 |title=Pearson customer notification |url=https://www.pearson.com/news-and-research/announcements/2019/07/pearson-customer-notification.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429054944/https://www.pearson.com/news-and-research/announcements/2019/07/pearson-customer-notification.html |archive-date=April 29, 2020 |access-date=August 15, 2025 |website=Pearson.com}}</ref> 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."

~~This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].~~

~~===Example incident one (''date'')===~~

~~{{Main|link to the main article}}~~

~~Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).~~

===Example incident two (''date'')===

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-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. <!-- ᓚᘏᗢ < hi! sf here! treat this as an early draft! -->{{Ph-C-Int}}
+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. <!-- ᓚᘏᗢ < hi! sf here! treat this as an early draft! -->
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+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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singer |first=Alan |date=November 14, 2019 |title=Data Breach At Pearson Mis-Education |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/14/1899339/-Data-Breech-At-Pearson-Mis-Education |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307111657/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/14/1899339/-Data-Breech-At-Pearson-Mis-Education |archive-date=March 7, 2020 |access-date=August 15, 2025 |work=Daily Kos}}</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite web |last=Overland |first=Scott |date=July 31, 2019 |title=Pearson customer notification |url=https://www.pearson.com/news-and-research/announcements/2019/07/pearson-customer-notification.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429054944/https://www.pearson.com/news-and-research/announcements/2019/07/pearson-customer-notification.html |archive-date=April 29, 2020 |access-date=August 15, 2025 |website=Pearson.com}}</ref> 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." <!-- ᓚᘏᗢ < hi! sf here! this is a WIP!  -->
-This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
-===Example incident one (''date'')===
-{{Main|link to the main article}}
-Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
 ===Example incident two (''date'')===
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