Personal Data Leak Monitor

GeekedIn data breach

1.07M accounts from GeekedIn (geekedin.net) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included geographic locations, names and professional skills.

Breach date
August 15, 2016
Accounts
1,073,164
Added to the database
November 17, 2016

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What leaked

Email addressesGeographic locationsNamesProfessional skillsUsernamesYears of professional experience

What to do now

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  3. Verify you have not reused that login anywhere

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About this breach

In August 2016, the technology recruitment site GeekedIn left a MongoDB database exposed and over 8M records were extracted by an unknown third party. The breached data was originally scraped from GitHub in violation of their terms of use and contained information exposed in public profiles, including over 1 million members' email addresses. Full details on the incident (including how impacted members can see their leaked data) are covered in the blog post on 8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB - here's how to see yours.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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