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TheGradCafe

Disclosed Mar 24, 20233 years ago310,975 accountsUnverified

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.

What is known

People affected310,975 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedMar 24, 2023
HappenedFeb 26, 2023
AttackNot stated
Data exposedEmails, Location, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Addresses
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: TheGradCafehaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataMar 24, 2023310,975
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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