Chegg avoids fine in deal with FTC over cybersecurity lapses
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Aaron Nicodemus2022-10-31T17:25:00
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered education technology provider Chegg to fix problems and weaknesses with its cybersecurity program that led to the exposure of personal and financial data of 40 million customers in four data breaches since 2017.
In agreeing to the order, Chegg promised to “bolster its data security, limit the data the company can collect and retain, offer users multifactor authentication to secure their accounts, and allow users to access and delete their data,” the FTC said Monday in a press release.
Chegg neither admitted nor denied any of the allegations in the FTC complaint, except as specifically stated in the decision, according to the FTC’s order.
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