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Breach occurred 2018-04-28Verifiedchegg.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Chegg data breach occurred on April 28, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on August 16, 2019.
39,721,127 accounts were affected by the Chegg data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Chegg breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Chegg breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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