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Breach occurred 2023-02-26Verifiedthegradcafe.com
What happened
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. Some records also included physical address, phone number and date of birth. TheGradCafe did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the breach.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The TheGradCafe data breach occurred on February 26, 2023. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on March 24, 2023.
310,975 accounts were affected by the TheGradCafe data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The TheGradCafe breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the TheGradCafe breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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