Xuetong responded to the rumor that 170million user information had been leaked: the information was untrue and the case had been reported-瞭望新时代网-瞭望时代，放眼世界

Xuetong responded to the rumor that 170million user information had been leaked: the information was untrue and the case had been reported

2022-06-22

Recently, Xuetong was exposed to have leaked 170million pieces of information. It is said that the leaked data include name, mobile number, gender, school, student number, email and other information, totaling 172.73 million pieces. It home learned that in response to this matter, Xuetong just released a statement on the official wechat that our company received the feedback of "suspected Xuetong app user data leakage" last night, and immediately organized technical troubleshooting. At present, the troubleshooting has been carried out for more than 10 hours, and no clear evidence of user information leakage has been found so far. Learn whether to store the user's plaintext password, and adopt one-way encryption storage. Theoretically, the user password will not be disclosed. Under this technical means, even the company's internal employees (including programmers) cannot obtain the plaintext password. The company confirmed that the password disclosure rumored on the Internet was untrue. The statement also said that in view of the seriousness of the matter, the case had been reported to the public security organ, which had already intervened in the investigation. However, the netizens in the comment area did not seem to buy the response of Xuetong Public information shows that superstar learning link is an app with a very high penetration rate in universities. Its functions include online class clock out, exam invigilation, etc. At present, the IOS version of learning link has received 120000 scores, with an average score of only 1.4 (full score of 5). Several users who gave one star comments mentioned that superstar learning link is suspected of over collecting privacy information. In order to realize the invigilation function, users "must turn on the microphone, the camera and the real name system". Superstar learning link was exposed to have leaked 170million pieces of information. It is said that relevant departments have stepped in to investigate. (Xinhua News Agency)

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