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GeekedIn data breach (2016)

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,…

Victim
GeekedIn
records
1.1M
SectorTechnology

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2016-08-15, GeekedIn was affected by a data breach. Approximately 1,073,164 accounts were exposed. 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,…

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#GeekedIn
  2. geekedin.nethttps://geekedin.net

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