Jobandtalent Data Breach

What happened

In approximately February 2018, the employment website Jobandtalent suffered a data breach which then appeared for sale alongside other breaches a year later. The incident impacted 11 million subscribers and exposed their names, email and IP addresses and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Jobandtalent password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Jobandtalent — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.