Jobandtalent 2018 Data Breach
Platform · Workforce management and staffing · Digital staffing marketplace · Global
Jobandtalent Digital Staffing Platform Breach (2018): 11 Million User Accounts Including Passwords Exposed
Digital staffing and workforce platform.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
30/100
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.
11.0MRecords
2018Year
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.
Breach Summary
Around February 2018, the employment platform Jobandtalent suffered a data breach affecting 10,981,207 accounts, which surfaced for sale roughly a year later and was indexed in January 2021. Exposed data included names, email addresses, IP addresses, and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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11.0M records analyzed
About Jobandtalent
Jobandtalent is a digital staffing and employment marketplace that connects workers with temporary and permanent jobs across multiple countries.
Why They Hold Your Data
Digital staffing marketplaces collect worker identity, contact details, resumes, employment history, payroll-related records, shift data, and employer-linked information across hiring and workforce-management workflows.
Recent Developments
Jobandtalent continued to grow as a staffing platform. The breached data appeared for sale about a year after the incident.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Email Address
Full Name
IP Address
Password High
Breach Impact
Salted SHA-1 slows but does not prevent cracking of weak passwords, exposing reused credentials to stuffing, while the job-seeker context supports employment-themed phishing.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
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 the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
- 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: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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