LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users’ passwords following data leak

Online learning company Lynda.com, a subsidiary of LinkedIn, which is now officially a subsidiary of Microsoft, today sent out an email to some users alerting them to a breach of a database that includes contact information and courses some users viewed. Altogether, it’s emailing about 9.5 million users whose passwords weren’t included in the affected database, a LinkedIn spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email.
But there was a small percentage of users (fewer than 55,000) whose pa