IIMJobs data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the December 2018 breach of IIMJobs. For every breach, see Breaches.
The IIMJobs data breach exposed 4,216,063 accounts from iimjobs.com in December 2018. The data taken includes passwords, dates of birth, names and email addresses and 5 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 21 May 2021, 2 years later. It is the 224th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
IIMJobs’s breach included 9 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Dates of birth | Used to prove who you are to banks and phone companies. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| 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. |
| Geographic locations | Roughly where you live. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
| Job applications | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| Job titles | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
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, IIMJobs among them, without showing the data.
- Change your IIMJobs password.If the account still exists, sign in at IIMJobs (iimjobs.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention IIMJobs.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.
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:
- Fashion Nexus, July 2018, 1.3 million accounts
- TaiLieu, November 2019, 7.3 million accounts
- EatStreet, May 2019, 6.4 million accounts
- bigbasket, October 2020, 25 million accounts
- Wishbone (2020), January 2020, 9.7 million accounts
- Dave, June 2020, 3 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- iimjobs.com, IIMJobs’s website