[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f3gxf901iaugmp":3},{"success":4,"breach":5},true,{"_id":6,"name":7,"title":8,"slug":7,"domain":9,"breachDate":10,"addedDate":11,"modifiedDate":12,"contentUpdatedAt":13,"source":14,"sourceUrl":15,"sourceUrls":16,"pwnCount":17,"affectedCount":17,"affectedCountStatus":18,"affectedCountLowerBound":19,"affectedCountUnit":20,"hasEnglishDescription":4,"severity":21,"dataClasses":22,"description":29,"seoTitle":30,"seoTitleEn":31,"seoDescription":30,"seoDescriptionEn":32,"logoUrl":33,"isVerified":4,"isSensitive":34,"isSpamList":34,"isMalware":34,"company":35},"68e3266eda11adda488251fb","geekedin","GeekedIn Data Breach","geekedin.net","2016-08-15T00:00:00.000Z","2016-11-17T19:44:24.000Z","2026-07-02T12:26:55.059Z","2026-07-18T23:51:24.919Z","Third party breach","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.troyhunt.com\u002F8-million-github-profiles-were-leaked-from-geekedins-mongodb-heres-how-to-see-yours",[15],1073164,"known",null,"unknown","Critical",[23,24,25,26,27,28],"Email addresses","Geographic locations","Names","Professional skills","Usernames","Years of professional experience","\u003Cp>The GeekedIn data breach is a verified incident that occurred in August 2016 in a service focused on technology recruitment and developer profiles. The verified email scope includes 1,073,164 unique records. Millions of developer profile records were obtained from a database that remained accessible during the incident, and within this extensive profile archive, the email addresses of more than one million members were also included. The affected data groups consist of email addresses, geographic locations, names, professional skills, usernames, and years of professional experience. Passwords, phone numbers, payment information, official identity, physical addresses, or private message data are not among the verified fields for this record. Therefore, the risk should be assessed not in terms of password compromise, but through professional profile matching, targeted recruitment fraud, phishing, and privacy loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Leaked Data Types and Risks\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>The main risk in the GeekedIn record is the combination of professional identity data with an email address. When information such as name, username, geographic location, skills list, and years of experience is available together, attackers can craft job offers, project invitations, technical interviews, freelance opportunities, or account verification messages that appear personalized to the individual. Such messages seem more convincing than general spam because they may include details relevant to the person's professional field and background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this incident, a password leak has not been confirmed. This distinction is important; the user should not be presented with a direct password cracking risk for this particular record. Nevertheless, email addresses and professional profile information provide strong data for social engineering. Location information and years of experience can be used to target a person within specific cities, sectors, seniority, or skill groups. Therefore, the risk is more concentrated on professional reputation and targeted communication security than on account login.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Verified Scope and Boundaries\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>The number of verified emails for this record should be kept as 1,073,164. Although millions of profile records were obtained in the extensive event, this value directly represents the unique scope that can be searched by email. Each profile record may not correspond to a single real person or a single email address. Some records may consist of old profiles, recurring usernames, or public profile fields. Therefore, the extensive profile archive and the verified email scope should be kept separate in the text.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Verified data classes are email addresses, geographic locations, names, professional skills, usernames, and years of professional experience. Password, password hash, phone number, payment card, official ID, date of birth, physical address, private message, or employment contract should not be added to the record because they are not verified fields. The incident being associated with developer profiles is not sufficient to assume the presence of unverified sensitive fields.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>User Groups at Risk\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>The highest risk is for developers, technical employees, freelancers, and job-seeking users whose professional skills and location information are visible along with their email addresses. Attackers can create fake job opportunities suitable for the technology field the person uses, their level of experience, or their region. This situation requires particular caution, especially in remote work, contract projects, and technical interview invitations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who use the same username across different developer communities, social networks, or portfolio sites also face the risk of profile matching. When email address, name, location, and skill information are found together, a person's professional identity on different platforms can be more easily linked. Users who are in the job search process should not download files, click on links, or share personal documents without verifying the authenticity of incoming offers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Urgent Measures to Be Taken\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>In this record, the user with an email address should primarily focus on professional communication security. Messages containing suspicious job offers, technical interviews, project invitations, portfolio reviews, or payment promises should be independently verified. Files should not be opened or links clicked without verifying the sender's domain, the company's official communication channels, and the authenticity of the invitation. Since a password leak has not been confirmed for this record, the main risk is fake messages and profile targeting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Multi-factor authentication should be enabled on the email account, and security notifications should be kept on. If the user uses the same email address for job applications, developer communities, and personal accounts, they should filter incoming messages more carefully. If profile pages display excessive location, phone, personal documents, or private work history, these fields should be reduced. Particular caution should be exercised with early-stage job offers that request a resume, identification document, or payment information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Long-Term Security Strategies\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>The GeekedIn incident shows that combining openly available professional profile data with email addresses poses a long-term privacy risk. Users should regularly review which information they keep public on professional network, portfolio, developer community, and job application accounts. Using a separate email address for job searching, keeping personal accounts separate from professional profiles, and reducing unnecessary location details lowers the risk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main lesson for service providers is not to unnecessarily accumulate contact data such as email addresses in one place with open profile data. Databases should be kept restricted, access logs should be monitored, public-facing services should be regularly tested, and limits should be applied against the risk of bulk data extraction. In user-facing notifications, important limits should be clearly specified, just as passwords are not included, and nonetheless, the ongoing risk of targeted phishing should be explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Record Control and User Action\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>During record verification for a GeekedIn breach, the result indicates whether the entered email address is found in this verified data set. If the result is positive, the email address, name, username, location, professional skills, and years of experience should be considered at risk. If the result is negative, it means that no match was found in this particular data set; this does not prove that the person is not present in other professional data leaks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The correct user action is to protect the email account with multi-factor authentication, verify incoming job offers and project invitations through independent channels, reduce unnecessary information on publicly available professional profiles, and review the matching risk created by the same username on different platforms. This record should not be treated like a password breach; it should be evaluated as professional profile privacy and targeted social engineering risk.\u003C\u002Fp>","","GeekedIn Data Breach (1.1 Million Reported Records)","GeekedIn Data Breach. 1.1 Million reported records were reported. Reported data: Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names. 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