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GeekedIn

GeekedIn

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Disclosed

August 15, 2016

3511 days ago

Records

1.1M

Confirmed

Root Cause

Third-Party Breach

Industry

Technology

Description

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.

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Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

Email AddressesLocation DataNamesUsernames
GeekedIn Data Breach (2016) - 1.1M Records | ExposedMap