Personal Data Leak Monitor

Chegg data breach

39.7M accounts from Chegg (chegg.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
April 28, 2018
Accounts
39,721,127
Added to the database
August 16, 2019

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What leaked

Email addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addressesUsernames

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  3. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  4. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls
  5. Be careful with unexpected mail or visitors

Tools that help with this breach

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About this breach

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 also contained physical address or phone number.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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