ShinyHunters threaten to leak 1.4 million Udemy records containing private data

Extortion group ShinyHunters has claimed a breach at Udemy, an e-learning platform. The hackers are threatening to release over 1.4 million records containing personally identifiable information and other corporate data. The claims haven’t yet been officially confirmed. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), a data breach search engine, has added 1.4 million email addresses from the dump and confirmed that the data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, employer information and instructor payout method. 

For comparison, Udemy had an estimated 77 million e-learners in 2024, and the number is likely to have grown since then.