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TheGradCafe data breach (2023)

In February 2023, the grad school admissions search website TheGradCafe suffered a data breach that disclosed the personal records of 310k users. The data included email addresses, names and usernames, genders, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

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TheGradCafe
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311.0K
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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 2023-02-26, TheGradCafe was affected by a data breach. Approximately 310,975 accounts were exposed. In February 2023, the grad school admissions search website TheGradCafe suffered a data breach that disclosed the personal records of 310k users. The data included email addresses, names and usernames, genders, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#TheGradCafe
  2. thegradcafe.comhttps://thegradcafe.com

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