In August 2016, the technology recruitment site GeekedIn left a MongoDB database exposed and over 8M records were extracted by an unknown third party. The hacked data was originally scraped from GitHub in violation of their terms of utilise and contained info exposed in public profiles, including over 1 million members' email addresses. Full details on the incident (including how impacted members can view their leaked data) are covered in the blog stake on 8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB - here's how to see yours.
About HackNotice and GeekedIn
HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and GeekedIn was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.
If you are a user of GeekedIn their products, services, websites, or applications and you were a client of HackNotice, monitoring for GeekedIn you may have been alerted to this report about GeekedIn . HackNotice is a service that provides data, information, and monitoring that helps our clients recover from and remediate data breaches, hacks, and leaks of their personal information. HackNotice provides a service that helps our clients know what to do about a hack, breach, or leak of their information.
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HackNotice monitors trends in publically available data that indicates tens of thousands of data breaches each year, along with billions of records from data leaks each year. On behalf of our clients, HackNotice works to monitor for hacks that trail to depress node security and digital identities that have been exposed and should be considered vulnerable to attack. HackNotice works with clients to place the extent that digital identities have been exposed and provides remediation suggestions for how to handle each type of exposure.
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