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Edmodo data breach (2017)

In May 2017, the education platform Edmodo was hacked resulting in the exposure of 77 million records comprised of over 43 million unique customer email addresses. The data was consequently published to a popular hacking forum and made freely available.

Victim
Edmodo
records
43.4M
SectorEducation
CountryUnited States

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 2017-05-11, Edmodo was affected by a data breach. Approximately 43,423,561 accounts were exposed. In May 2017, the education platform Edmodo was hacked resulting in the exposure of 77 million records comprised of over 43 million unique customer email addresses. The data was consequently published to a popular hacking forum and made freely available.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Edmodo
  2. edmodo.comhttps://edmodo.com

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