Protemps data breach: 49K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-12-20
In October 2021, the Singaporean recruitment website Protemps suffered a data breach that exposed almost 50,000 unique email addresses. The impacted data includes names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, passport numbers and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes, among troves of other jobseeker data. Exposed data: email addresses, genders, job applications, marital statuses, names, nationalities, passport numbers, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, religions, salutations. The breach dates from Oct 4, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Dec 20, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Protemps 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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