Recruitment Site Scraped, Leaked 8 Million GitHub Profiles

  • 18 November 2016
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By Eduard Kovacs on November 18, 2016 A new tech recruitment project scraped user data from GitHub and other similar websites and inadvertently leaked it online through a misconfigured MongoDB database.

Australian security expert Troy Hunt, the owner of the Have I Been Pwned service, was recently provided a 600 Mb MongoDB backup file containing data from a tech recruitment website called GeekedIn. A closer analysis revealed that the file contained information on more than 8 million GitHub profiles, including names, email addresses, locations and other data. Full Article

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Just checked my GitHub profile, email address and I got a okay  Good news — no pwnage found!   YES!!!!

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