Data breach
GeekedIngeekedin.net
1 073 164 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2016-08-15.
Breached2016-08-15Added to HIBP2016-11-17 UTCUpdated by HIBP2022-03-06 UTCAccounts1 073 164Domaingeekedin.net
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
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 breached data was originally scraped from GitHub in violation of their terms of use and contained information exposed in public profiles, including over 1 million members' email addresses. Full details on the incident (including how impacted members can see their leaked data) are covered in the blog post on 8 million GitHub profiles were leaked from GeekedIn's MongoDB - here's how to see yours.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Geographic locations
- Names
- Professional skills
- Usernames
- Years of professional experience
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.
Our report on geekedin.net
Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)
Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC