Unacademy Hacked?? Unacademy database of 22 million users hacked, information put up for sale
A database of around 22 million users of Unacademy with contacts of employees of Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, Google and its investor Facebook is up for sale on the darkweb, according to US-based security firm Cyble. The company had suffered a breach in January following which contacts were put up for sale as recently as May 3 for $2000, the firm said. According to Cyble the database includes usernames, emails addresses, passwords, date joined, last login date, first and last names, account profile and account status (whether the account is active). Hemesh Singh, Co- Founder and CTO, Unacademy in a statement to ET said, "As per our internal investigations, email data of around 11 million users has been compromised as against 22 million stated in reports. This is on account of only around 11 million email data of users available on the Unacademy platform. We have been closely monitoring the situation and would like to assure our users that no sensitive information such as financial