Hacked by Lynda.com

The well-known website Lynda.com with its incredible online tutorials has been hacked. The attackers managed to breach a base which contains information from users and courses.

According to the company, about 55.000 of its registered users are affected s.Lynda.com

Lynda.com, which is a subsidiary of LinkedIn, which it bought η , confirmed the hack and has already begun resetting passwords for the 55.000 compromised accounts.

In addition, the service sends emails to 9,5 millions of registered users to inform them of the violation even though their data did not exist in the hacked database.

In the leaked data there are no credit card data according to the company, and all the codes were sufficiently encrypted, soaked and hashed.

If you were using the Lynda.com service you should restore it immediately your access, regardless of whether or not it has been intercepted.

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