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Coursera platform vulnerabilities could have exposed user data
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Newly disclosed vulnerabilities in platform services provided by online education provider Coursera Inc. could have exposed user data before being fixed.
Discovered by researchers at application security testing company Checkmarx Ltd. and publicized today, the vulnerabilities relate to a range of Coursera application programming interfaces. The researchers decided to dig into Coursera’s security because of its increasing popularity through the switch to online work and learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coursera, a venture capital-funded company, has 82 million users and works with more than 200 companies and universities. Notable partnerships include the University of Illinois, Duke University, Google LLC, University of Michigan, International Business Machines Corp., Imperial College London, Stanford University and the Uni