Lynda.com Notifies 9.5M Users About Database Breach

Online learning company Lynda.com, a subsidiary of LinkedIn, which is now officially a subsidiary of Microsoft, sent out an email to some users alerting them to a breach of a database that includes contact information and courses some users viewed. Altogether, it’s emailing about 9.5 million users whose passwords weren’t included in the affected database, a LinkedIn spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.

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