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Millions of job seekers’ info exposed via easily accessible database backups

November 14, 2016

A data leak has exposed sensitive information about millions of job seekers that used global recruitment firm Michael Page. The leak has once again been revealed to the leaking company through Troy Hunt, the creator and administrator of the Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) online service.

“It was the same individual who located the Red Cross data and the same story in terms of discovery an underlying risk on the server end; publicly exposed website, directory listing enabled, .sql files exposed,” Hunt explained.

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