Chegg
2 breaches40M affected in allTechchegg.com
| Breach | Affected | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosed Apr 27, 2020Apr 27, 20206 years ago | Apr 27, 20206 years ago | Not stated | Other | Confirmed | Unknown |
| Four breaches from 2017 to 2020 exposed 40M users' data; FTC orderSep 26, 20188 years agoHacking | Sep 26, 20188 years ago | Hacking | Education | Settled | 40M |
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- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · source: https://www.maine.gov/ag/sites/maine.gov.ag/files/docs/Data%20breach%20spreadsheet%208-1-2021%20through%2012-5-2018%20REDACTED.xlsx
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · status: settled
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · lawsuit: FTC consent order (Oct 2022); no monetary penalty
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · sector: education
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · attack: hacking
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · data_types: ["emails","names","passwords","phone","addresses","financial","health","ssn"]
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · records_basis: organization
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · records: 40000000
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · summary: A former contractor used a shared, fully privileged AWS access key to take 40 million Chegg user records in 2018, and three phishing breaches exposed more customer and employee data including financial, medical and Social Security informati
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · title: Four breaches from 2017 to 2020 exposed 40M users' data; FTC order
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · hibp: Chegg
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · sector: tech
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · data_types: ["emails","names","passwords","phone","addresses"]
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · records_basis: hibp
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · records: 39721127
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · occurred: 2018-04-28
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · summary: 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
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg · domain: chegg.com
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2018-09-26 · added
- 2026-09-25 · Chegg, 2020-04-27 · added
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