2026 MyNewTerm — actor 888 sale claim; 142,653 UK education applicants (unverified)
Data compromised
Actor: candidate emails, roles applied, application/offer/hire status, job refs, start dates, onboarding owners, recruiter notes, trust/establishment IDs, vacancies (unverified)
Technical writeup
Unverified forum sale claim — Dark Web Informer August 25, 2026. Actor 888 offered a one-time Monero sale of alleged MyNewTerm (UK education recruitment) applicant data: 142,653 unique users from an August 2026 breach claim, including emails, roles applied for, application/offer/hire/rescinded flags, job references, start dates, onboarding owners, free-text recruiter notes, how applicants heard of roles, and trust/establishment IDs. MyNewTerm had not publicly confirmed at indexing. recordsAffected 142653 (unverified); companyConfirmed false.
Root cause
Unverified one-time Monero sale by actor 888 claiming August 2026 direct breach of MyNewTerm (DWI Aug 25)