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Chicago based global staffing service suffers a data breach.

07 November 2022
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A total of 11 breaches were found and analysed resulting in 2,755,575 leaked accounts containing a total of 17 different data types. The breaches found publicly and freely available included Snails Game, Catho, Yavp, Joy of Satan and Fiber Corp. Sign in to view the full library of breach events which includes, where available, reference articles relating to each breach.

Categories of Personal Data Discovered

Contact Data, Technical Data, Locational Data, Social Relationships Data, Socia-Demographic Data, Financial Data, Transactional Data, Behavioural Data.

Data Breach Analysis

Snails Game is a developer known for online and mobile games, so the compromise here could impact players' login details and access to in-game purchases or communities. Catho, a large Brazilian recruitment platform, presents a different kind of risk, one tied to professional data, CVs, and communication between job seekers and employers.

Another breach affected Yavp, which appears linked to online analytics or content delivery, where leaked data might reflect user interaction patterns or behavioural information. In a more sensitive category, Joy of Satan, a niche spiritual site, brings a reputational dimension to the breach, especially if individuals are publicly identifiable.

Finally, there's Fiber Corp, a telecommunications company operating in Argentina. A breach here has more serious implications: not just customer contact details, but potentially infrastructure-related access if internal credentials were part of the leak.

Altogether, the risks aren’t just personal. Exposed information in sectors like recruitment and telecoms can open up pathways for phishing, fraud, and access to corporate environments. Even leaks involving niche communities can result in reputational damage or harassment. For employers, reused credentials or compromised employee data can become entry points for larger-scale threats.

Spotlight

A global staffing service based in Chicago that stretches across the globe with offices in India and the Philippines recently suffered a data breach. The breach happened back in July and has been recently dumped for free on a popular hacking forum recently. The actual file was strangely bigger than a standard dump we normally see, because the company stored raw resumes in their database. Datasets include visa documentation, job titles, and over 80 thousand unique email addresses.

A California wedding dress company that supplies a wide range of luxury dresses has suffered a data breach that resulted in over 1 million unique accounts dumped on various hacking platforms. The company was started in 2014 and has been widely successful. The data is from mid July 2015 all the way up to last week with a wide range of datasets such as payment methods, mobile phone numbers, and IP addresses.

A tech company that offers online assessment tools to schools, colleges, and universities has unfortunately been compromised by threat actors, with their data being leaked online. The company was founded in late 2017 and provides a digital way for companies or employers to conduct or take assessments. The company is located in Chhattisgarh, central India. Email addresses, hashed Bcrypt passwords, and various other datasets are in circulation on a variety of forums.

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