Duolingo suffers major data breach

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The United States (U.S.) has been targeted time and time again with data breaches. Earlier in August, it was reported that the U.S. was the country with the most data leaks so far.

US was hit the hardest by the Duolingo data leak - Surfshark

According to Surfshark, Duolingo was the target of data leak and a number of countries were affected. The total number of accounts compromised was approximately 3 million Duolingo users.

Out of the 3 million accounts impacted close to 1 million came from the U.S. alone. South Sudan was the second most affected country (175K accounts) followed by Spain (123K), France (105K), and the U.K. (98K).

Surfshark graphic.

As to how this happened it is believed that the leak happened by scraping Duolingos data using an application programming interface (API). The nature of the data obtained was a combination of public and private information.