German healthcare recruitment platform leaks sensitive job seeker info

Pflegia, a recruiting platform for care workers, experienced a significant data leak, exposing the sensitive information of thousands of individuals. The leaked data was from the applicants' resumes with details such as full names, dates of birth, occupation history, home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

The information that one is looking for a job is valuable to scammers who stage fake interviews, email exchanges, and requests as coming from legit companies, hoping to get either money or personal data for use in identity theft. Fraudsters gather and combine all the information they can get about a person so they can impersonate and steal their identity.

If your resume was in the Pflegia database, be extra careful and suspicious about unexpected job offers.

Here are some tips and red flags to avoid getting scammed while on the job hunt or after a recruitment website breach:

- Be skeptical of requests for on-the-spot virtual interviews, additional personal information, or requests to purchase products or office equipment

- Check email headers, URLs, senders

- Do a deep-dive on the company and its hiring managers, and if you have any suspicions, reach out to the company's HR department to confirm the recruitment process is legit.

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