Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach and reset customers’ pwds

The online education portal EduCBA discloses a data breach and is resetting customers’ passwords in response to the incident.

Online education website EduCBA discloses a data breach, it has started notifying customers that in response to the incident it is resetting their passwords.

EduCBA is a leading global provider of skill based education with 500,000+ members across 40+ Countries. It offers 2500+ courses prepared by top-notch professionals from the Industry to help participants achieve their goals successfully.

The company is notifying by email the incident to its customers confirming that their data have been accessed by an unauthorized party.

“Therefore, as a caution, we have invalidated passwords of all the users. You may retrieve your password here,” the data breach notification.

The data breach notification doesn’t include technical details about the attack, it only states that email, name, password, courses visited, etc may have been compromised.

The online education website states that no financial information was exposed as they use third-party processors such as PayPal and 2Checkout to process payments.

As a precaution, EduCBA states that they have reset all user’s passwords.

As usual, customers that have used their EduCBA credentials at other sites have to change their passwords at these sites too.

Customers should remain vigilant of cyber attack, crooks may use their data to carry out spear-phishing attacks.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – EduCBA, hacking)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.