On August 16, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Pearson plc, a publicly traded British multinational educational publishing and services company, agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty in a settlement related to charges that Pearson misled investors about a 2018 data breach resulting in the theft of millions of student records.
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