Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users.
Unacademy is one of India's largest online learning platforms boasting 14K teachers, over a million video lessons, and over 20 million registered users (learners).
On May 3rd, 2020, cyber intelligence company Cyble Inc. discovered that a threat actor had begun to sell an Unacademy user database containing 20 million accounts for $2,000.
The database contains a total of 21,909,707 user records.
These records include usernames, SHA-256 hashed passwords, date joined, last login date, email addresses, first and last names, and whether the account is active, a staff member, or a superuser.
"id": "UNA1446301222",
"linkid": "unacademy",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "05/2020",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
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