Security News > 2020 > April > Chegg Informs Employees of Data Breach
American education technology company Chegg this week sent notifications to its employees to inform them of a data breach that occurred earlier this month.
The company says that it learned of the data breach on April 10, 2020, and that the information of both current and former employees might have been exfiltrated in the incident.
"On April 10, 2020, we learned that, on or about April 9, 2020, an outside hacker may have illegally obtained employee information for approximately 700 current and former U.S. Chegg employees," the notification, which was published on the California Attorney General's website, reads.
Chegg says the intruders were able to access personally identifiable information such as employee names and social security numbers.
It's yet unclear how the attackers were able to compromise Chegg's network or whether the incident is in any way related to the two previous data breaches that the company reported over the past couple of years.
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