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Breach occurred 2018-12-31Verifiediimjobs.com
What happened
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.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The IIMJobs data breach occurred on December 31, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on May 21, 2021.
4,216,063 accounts were affected by the IIMJobs data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The IIMJobs breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Job applications, Job titles, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the IIMJobs breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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