LinkedIn, now owned by Microsoft, begun informing users about a data breach at Lynda.com. An unauthorized third party breached a database with Lynda.com learning data and customer information.
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The e-mail informing users has been send (according to neowin.net) to all affected Lynda.com users.
We recently became aware that an unauthorized third party breached a database that included some of your Lynda.com learning data, such as contact information and courses viewed. We are informing you of this issue out of an abundance of caution.
Please know that we have no evidence that this data included your password. And while we have no evidence that your specific account was accessed or that any data has been made publicly available, we wanted to notify you as a precautionary measure.
If you have questions, we encourage you to contact us through our Support Center.
The Lynda .com team
A Lynda.com spokesman has also reveled the following details about the data breach.
We recently became aware that an unauthorized third party ?accessed a database that included Lynda.com ?user data. As a precautionary measure, we reset passwords for the less than 55,000 Lynda.com users affected and are notifying them of the issue. We're also working to notify approximately 9.5 million Lynda.com users who had learner data, but no password information, in the database. We have no evidence that any of this data has been made publicly available and we have taken additional steps to secure Lynda.com accounts.
I haven't received such a notification till yet – I was registered as video trainer years ago for austrian company video2brain (that was overtaken by Lynda.com and belongs now to LinkedIn/Microsoft).
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