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TheGradCafe

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
311K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
9
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2023
TheGradCafe

Breach History

TheGradCafe
Feb 2023Critical
311K
Records exposed
9
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In February 2023, the grad school admissions search website TheGradCafe suffered a data breach that disclosed the personal records of 310k users. The data included email addresses, names and usernames, genders, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes. Some records also included physical address, phone number and date of birth. TheGradCafe did not respond to multiple attempts to disclose the breach.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesGendersGeographic locationsIP addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbersPhysical addressesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
GendersLow risk
Geographic locationsLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Phone numbersMedium risk
Physical addressesMedium risk
UsernamesLow risk