One of India’s largest e-learning platforms, Unacademy, suffered a huge data breach back in January earlier this year. The company has already confirmed the breach and said that it affects over 1.1 crore users of the platform. This figure, however, is simply half of the number of user accounts that the alleged hacker has put up for sale on the dark web.
As mentioned earlier, Facebook-backed Unacademy has acknowledged the data breach. Co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal took to Twitter today to shed light on the current situation. He confirms that the users’ basic information was compromised in the hack but the location and financial data are safe and sound.
We follow stringent encryption methods using the PBKDF2 algorithm with a SHA256 hash, making it highly implausible for anyone to decrypt your passwords. I would still advice you to change your password on other platforms if you were using the same password at multiple places.
