Explore Talent (July 2024) data breach
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This article is about the February 2022 breach of Explore Talent (July 2024). For every breach, see Breaches.
The Explore Talent (July 2024) data breach exposed 5,371,574 accounts from exploretalent.com in February 2022. The data taken includes names, physical addresses, email addresses and phone numbers.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 25 Jul 2024, 2 years later. It is the 190th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Explore Talent (July 2024)’s breach included 4 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Physical addresses | Used to prove who you are, and for scam letters and parcels. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Explore Talent (July 2024) among them, without showing the data.
- Distrust messages that mention Explore Talent (July 2024).Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 2 years later.
- : the entry was last updated.
Breaches often stay hidden for a long time. Until it came out, people in it had no reason to change anything.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- TAP Air Portugal, August 2022, 6.1 million accounts
- iMenu360, August 2022, 3.4 million accounts
- PayHere, March 2022, 1.6 million accounts
- Fanpass, April 2022, 112,251 accounts
- Luxottica, March 2021, 77 million accounts
- AT&T, August 2021, 49 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Explore Talent (July 2024)”, Have I Been Pwned, added 25 Jul 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- exploretalent.com, Explore Talent (July 2024)’s website