Vedantu's data breach risked 680,000 customers data

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Vedantu's data breach risked 680,000 customers data
November 3, 2019
https://tech.economictimes.indiatim...-breach-risked-680000-customers-data/71882087

Bengaluru-based educational technology firm Vedantu faced a data breach in the last week of September which risked data of 680,000 customers. The vulnerability exposed customer details including email and IP addresses, names, phone numbers, it said.
He said the vulnerability was fixed within a few days and customers were informed about the attack and advised to change their passwords.

Security researcher Troy Hunt, who posted about the breach in his website ‘Have I been Pawned’, however, wrote that the compromised data included browser user agent details, email addresses, gender-specific identifiers, IP addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, spoken languages, time zones and website activity.
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Vedantu - Have I Been Pwned:

In mid-2019, the Indian interactive online tutoring platform Vedantu suffered a data breach which exposed the personal data of 687k users. The JSON formatted database dump exposed extensive personal information including email and IP address, names, phone numbers, genders and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. When contacted about the incident, Vedantu advised that they were aware of the breach and were in the process of informing their customers.

Breach date: 8 July 2019
Date added to HIBP: 1 November 2019
Compromised accounts: 686,899
Compromised data: Browser user agent details, Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Spoken languages, Time zones, Website activity
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