FTC schools edtech giant Chegg over ‘careless’ cybersecurity practices

The Federal Trade Commission has accused U.S. education technology giant Chegg of “careless” cybersecurity practices that led to the exposure of sensitive information about tens of millions of its customers and employees.
In a legal complaint filed on Monday, the FTC accuses Chegg — which provides digital and physical textbook rentals and online tutoring — of numerous cybersecurity lapses that resulted in four separate data breaches between 2017 and 2020.
In 2018, for example, hackers made off with 40 million Chegg customer records after a former contractor accessed a database that contained c

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