Data breach · August 2024

Was I in the Explore Talent (August 2024) breach?

Explore Talent is a talent network. Its breach happened in August 2024 and exposed 8,929,384 accounts. It included email addresses. If you had an account there by August 2024, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.

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01

What happened?

In August 2024, security flaws were found across a group of linked online services, Explore Talent among them. An API with a weakness exposed personal records of the service's users. This event is separate from the earlier Explore Talent breach dated to 2022.

Organisation
Explore Talent, a talent network (exploretalent.com)
When it happened
August 2024
Added to monitored breach databases
19 August 2024
Accounts in the data
8,929,384
What was exposed
email addresses
02

What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?

  • Your email addressemail addresses

    Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.

03

What should I do now?

In this order, for what this breach exposed.

1. Expect phishing

  • Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
  • If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
04

Is my address in it?

Enter your email address. We check that one address against monitored breach databases and show which breaches list it and what each exposed.

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Where does this come from?

Other breaches from 2024

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