IIMJobs data breach: 4.2M accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-05-21
In December 2018, the Indian job portal IIMJobs suffered a data breach that exposed 4.1 million unique email addresses. The data also included names, phone numbers, geographic locations, dates of birth, job titles, job applications and cover letters plus passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com. Exposed data: dates of birth, email addresses, geographic locations, ip addresses, job applications, job titles, names, passwords, phone numbers. The breach dates from Dec 31, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on May 21, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a IIMJobs account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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