Pearson VUE says credentials manager product affected
23 Nov 2015 at 11:53, Alexander J Martin
Cisco, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft's certification management provider, Pearson VUE, has copped to a data breach following a malware compromise of its Credential Manager System.
The Pearson Credential Manager (PCM) system supports a number of companies' certification tracking programmes. Pearson VUE stated that an "unauthorised third party improperly accessed certain information related to a limited set of our users".
Among the affected companies is Cisco. El Reg reader Oliver Jones, who tipped us off about the breach, had been trying to follow a certification with Cisco's tracking system, which is supported by Pearson VUE, and then found it had been down for more than a week.
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