Chegg data breach
In April 2018, Chegg suffered a data breach that exposed email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, and usernames. The breach affected 39,721,127 accounts. If you had an account there, change your password there, never reuse it anywhere else, and check your email address with the free scan.
- Breach date
- April 28, 2018
- Added to this tracker
- August 16, 2019
- Accounts affected
- 39,721,127
- Company domain
- chegg.com
- Data exposed
- Email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, and usernames
Was my information in the Chegg breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with Chegg before April 2018, your information may have been included. The free Ghost Delete scan checks your email address against known data breaches, so run it to see whether your address shows up.
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What data was exposed?
In the Chegg breach, the exposed data was email addresses, names, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, and usernames.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at Chegg right away, and anywhere else you reused it.
- Never reuse passwords: give every account a unique password.
- Watch for phishing emails and messages that use the exposed data to look convincing, and go to the site directly instead of clicking links.
- Run the free breach scan to check your email address against other breaches.
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