BigMoneyJobs 2014 Data Breach
Employment / Job Search
BigMoneyJobs 2014 Data Breach
A job search service in the employment sector.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
17/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
37KRecords
2014Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Crucial data exposed
AddressPhysical address
Breach Summary
In April 2014, the job site bigmoneyjobs.com was hacked by an attacker known as "ProbablyOnion". The attack resulted in the exposure of over 36,000 user accounts including email addresses, usernames and passwords which were stored in plain text. The attack was allegedly mounted by exploiting a SQL injection vulnerability.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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37K records analyzed
About BigMoneyJobs
BigMoneyJobs is a job search service in the employment sector.
Why They Hold Your Data
BigMoneyJobs is a job search service in the employment sector. Services like this typically hold activity history, education, email addresses, names, job information, passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses, salutation, website url through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The BigMoneyJobs dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
10 verified field types
Activity History
Education Information
Email Address
Full Name
Job Information
Password High
Phone Number
Physical address High
Salutation
Website Url
Breach Impact
The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for BigMoneyJobs users and drew scrutiny of its data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure | • Employment-based social engineering using job and employer data
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal this is targeting-grade, not merely identity-theft-grade: the combination lets an adversary locate, impersonate, or pressure the principal with little additional work.
What You Should Do
- Treat the home address as exposed: review mail and package handling and physical-security routines, and brief household staff to verify unusual requests.
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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