Ever taken a course on LinkedIn’s online education site Lynda.com? We have some potentially bad news.
As ZDNet reports, a hacker recently gained access to a Lynda.com database containing users’ contact information, their learning data and which courses they have viewed. A spokesperson for the Microsoft-owned company confirmed the breach in a statement to PCMag and said LinkedIn has reset the passwords for around 55,000 affected Lynda.com users “as a precautionary measure.”
“We’re also working to notify approximately 9.5 million Lynda.com users who had learner data, but no protected password information, in the database,” the spokesperson added. “We have…