You've Been Scraped 2018 Data Breach
Employment / Job Search
You've Been Scraped 2018 Circulating Data Breach
A job search service in the employment sector.
Scrape · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
18/100
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.
66.1MRecords
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
In October and November 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified several unprotected MongoDB instances believed to be hosted by a data aggregator. Containing a total of over 66M records, the owner of the data couldn't be identified but it is believed to have been scraped from LinkedIn hence the title "You've Been Scraped". The exposed records included names, both work and personal email addresses, job titles and links to the individuals' LinkedIn profiles.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
11 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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66.1M records analyzed
About You've Been Scraped
You've Been Scraped is a job search service in the employment sector.
Why They Hold Your Data
You've Been Scraped is a job search service in the employment sector. Services like this typically hold email addresses, employer, names, location data, job information, social profiles through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The You've Been Scraped dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
6 verified field types
Email Address
Employer
Full Name
Geographic location
Job Information
Social Media Profile
Breach Impact
The exposure created downstream fraud and phishing risk for those affected and drew scrutiny of You've Been Scraped's data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses | • Doxxing risk from physical address exposure | • Employment-based social engineering using job and employer data | • Social media account targeting and impersonation
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
- 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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Threat Actor: Unknown (aggregator)
Attribution based on available breach intelligence.
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