Textbook provider Chegg experienced a data breach, after an unauthorized source accessed one of the company’s databases.
It was Saint Mary’s College Information Technology department that learned the Chegg usernames and passwords originally stolen in the breach had been decrypted and posted online.
Chegg’s stock got down more than 10 percent a day after the breach was revealed.
Though Chegg reset the passwords of the 40 million affected accounts on their own system because individuals who were using the same password on other sites found to be at risk.
the information obtained in the 2018 breach potentially included a Chegg user’s name, email address, shipping address, Chegg username and hashed Chegg password.
"id": "CHE7815423",
"linkid": "chegg-inc-",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "10/2019",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"