There is a shock image that may be going around, hit popular parent/teacher application, parents beware

Michael in Tennessee sent this article to the Security Box email list and its titled Hack of popular parent-teacher app left users wide open to infamous shock image [Updated] which came from Ars Technica.

I’m happy that it was only a credential stuffing attack, where only a few accounts were accessed, but this just goes to show the types of things we taalk about can happen anywhere.

Credential Stuffing, as the term is known as, is where someone tries a username and password pair on a site or app to gain access to it either by finding the credentials somewhere or possibly by a guessing attack.

According to Wikipedia, it is most commonly done by an actor who has gotten the info from a stolen database or even through a datqabreach.

Credential Stuffing (Wikipedia)

While Seesaw said it was only 0.01 percent of the accounts, they say they’ve taken steps to make sure this does not happen again.

I do not know how old the article is, but if you do want to let parents know about this issue, please send them to the article Hack of popular parent-teacher app left users wide open to infamous shock image [Updated] which is an Ars article which talks about what the image is, the fact that this isn’t new, and what the company has done.

There is an update at the top which is of value too.

Thanks Michael, for sending this along!