Youthmanual Data Breach

What happened

In January 2019, the Indonesian college and career platform Youthmanual suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1M records of data. The breached included 938k unique email addresses along with extensive personal information including names, genders, dates and places of birth, phone numbers, physical addresses and salted SHA-1 password hashes.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Youthmanual 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 Youthmanual — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
• Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.