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2018 job-talent — Have I Been Pwned verified incident: Jobandtalent

2018 11.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Passwords

Technical writeup

In approximately February 2018, the employment website Jobandtalent suffered a data breach which then appeared for sale alongside other breaches a year later . The incident impacted 11 million subscribers and exposed their names, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. BreachHistory indexes the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) corpus for third-party breach disclosure and victim notification context; treat record counts and fields as disclosed in that source at time of indexing.

Root cause

Variations by incident; see HIBP narrative and linked disclosures where present.

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