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Over 20 mn Unacademy user accounts exposed in data breach: Report

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Bengaluru based edtech start-up Unacademy was targeted by a cyberattack in January 2020, resulting in exposure of over 20 million user accounts, which were later sold on Dark Web (part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines), cybersecurity intelligence firm Cyble claims in a blog post.

Mint has reached out to Unacademy and is waiting for their response. The attackers behind the breach claimed on Dark Web that they have the entire Unacademy database.

However, they decided to only leak users account at this point in time, indicating that more leaks can be expected in future, the blog post states.

Cyble has acquired the leaked data base which contains account details of 21,909,709 Unacademy users. Cyble was also instrumental in

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