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Coursera: Response to Reported Vulnerability in Instructor Access to Learner Data
Courserians, we are writing about a topic we take very seriously – user privacy. As some of you may have seen, Stanford instructor and security expert Jonathan Mayer, who teaches a course on Coursera, recently uncovered some security vulnerabilities in the Coursera website. Before we go into any details, let us emphasize the most important points: Critical Information Kept Private - At no time were learner credit cards, personal information, or course performance data available to unauthorized personnel. Limited Information Available to Instructors - Learner email addresses from all courses were potentially visible to instructors at our partner institutions who are teaching a Coursera-hosted course. Risk of Third-Party Malware - Individual learner enrollment information (specifically, a list of the courses a learner is taking) was potentially available if the learner went to a site running malware. Malware running on a separate site poses a security risk for most on…