Tag Archive for: Chegg

Data Security: It Pays to Ignore

With last week's FTC order and yesterday's earnings call, it is time to put the four and half year description of Chegg's data breaches to bed. When it comes to data security, it appears that it pays to ignore - from a financial perspective,…

Now Chegg Might Have to Reckon for Data Breach

In 2018 at e-Literate, I covered a data breach by Chegg that impacted up to 40 million users. Yesterday the NY Times reported that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has jumped in with a legal complaint accusing Chegg of 'careless' data security…

The Market Fall of EdTech Will Have Non-Financial Impacts

Two weeks ago I posted a Twitter thread noting just how much publicly-traded EdTech stocks have fallen since last Spring, using Coursera's March 31, 2021 IPO as a comparison date. My main point was that this situation will have impacts beyond…

Fall 2021 Enrollment Drop: Chegg as a casualty

While there was a common expectation, or at least hope, that Fall 2021 would show stabilized enrollments after the Fall 2020 through Spring 2021 pandemic-driven reductions, the National Student Clearinghouse's initial Fall Enrollment Estimates…

Coursera’s IPO: Putting the company’s market cap in perspective

Coursera goes big on first day as publicly-traded company #MindWiresOnline

Blackbaud on Data Breach: Nothing to see here, move along (podcast)

Blackbaud has a strategy: don't answer questions, hope to ride the storm out

Blackbaud on Data Breach: Nothing to see here, move along

Blackbaud has a strategy: don't answer questions, hope to ride the storm out

Update on Chegg Data Breach: Decrypted credentials now leading to multiple campus security attacks

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It turns out the 2018 Chegg data breach did matter - multiple security incidents coming public this fall