Education site Lynda resets passwords 55,000 users after data breach
Education site Lynda has informed its users of a data breach. In addition, an unknown third party would have had access to the hashed passwords of less than 55,000 of its total of 9.5 million users. This has reset the company.
In a statement to the site VentureBeat, Lynda said that the leaked passwords contained a hash and salt. No credit card information was allegedly stolen. In a statement to its users, the company says that “unauthorized access to training data, such as contact information and courses taken.”
In the statement, the company said nothing about leaked passwords, because it is aimed at people whose passwords have not been stolen. Lynda does not provide further details on the extent of the hack or when it took place. There would be no indications that the stolen data is publicly available, the spokesperson told VentureBeat.
Lynda has been a subsidiary of LinkedIn since 2015, which itself was acquired by Microsoft this year. The Redmond-based company completed this acquisition at the beginning of December. Lynda offers training in the form of videos on various topics. Earlier it turned out that LinkedIn was hacked in 2012, in which the login details of 117 million users were stolen.