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Chegg data breach (2018)

In April 2018, the textbook rental service Chegg suffered a data breach that impacted 40 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addresses, usernames, names and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. A small number of records also contained physical address or phone number.

Victim
Chegg
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39.7M
SectorRetail

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2018-04-28, Chegg was affected by a data breach. Approximately 39,721,127 accounts were exposed. In April 2018, the textbook rental service Chegg suffered a data breach that impacted 40 million subscribers. The exposed data included email addresses, usernames, names and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. A small number of records also contained physical address or phone number.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Chegg
  2. chegg.comhttps://chegg.com

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