'This activity appears to be part of a broader issue': education company McGraw Hill becomes latest to see its Salesforce data hacked

Date:
Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:15:00 +0000

Description:
ShinyHunters strikes again, claiming to have stolen plenty of personally identifiable information.

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says misconfiguration in Salesforce led to exposure, no SSNs, financial, or student data compromised American education science company McGraw Hill has confirmed suffering a data breach and losing sensitive internal data after
the infamous ransomware collective ShinyHunters added it to its data leak website.

In a statement shared with BleepingComputer , the company said the incident was not the result of a breach of its systems, but rather an exploitation of
a misconfiguration: McGraw Hill recently identified unauthorized access to a limited set of data from a webpage hosted by Salesforce on its platform, the company said. This activity appears to be part of a broader issue involving a misconfiguration within Salesforces environment that has impacted multiple organizations that work with Salesforce." Article continues below You may
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The company further stressed that the incident did not involve unauthorized access to its Salesforce accounts, customer databases, courseware, or
internal systems. Social Security numbers (SSN), financial account information, or student data generated by educational platforms, have not
been compromised.

A few days prior, the ShinyHunters ransomware group added McGraw Hill to its data leak website, and said it had until April 14 2026 to pay a ransom
demand, or see the stolen data leak to the dark web.

It claims to have stolen 45 million Salesforce records with personally identifiable information (PII), which contradicts McGraw Hills assessment
that the data is of little significance.

ShinyHunters is currently among the most active threat actors out there. It started as a ransomware player but quickly stopped deploying encryptors and focused entirely on data exfiltration and extortion. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

A few weeks ago, it broke into an analytics company Anodot , through which it accessed Snowflake accounts belonging to more than a dozen companies. It exfiltrated most of the data found there and is currently extorting the victims. At the same time, it published 78.6 million records stolen from game development behemoth Rockstar Games even before the deadline expired. The
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