AI-focused recruitment platform exposes half a million job seekers

• Xobin left a database publicly exposed online for at least three months
• The database was filled with the PII of over 500,000 job applicants
• Identification documents and passports were included in the files

Days after a database containing the personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of jobseekers was uncovered, another half million may have been exposed by a different company.

The unprotected files were found by Cybernews researchers, and contain the PII of over 500,000 job applicants, including resumes, scans of passports, and copies of identification documents.

The files were left exposed by AI-powered HR tech company Xobin, and despite numerous alerts to the public database, remained open and accessible for almost three months.

Xobin responsible for some big names

The researchers say Xobin counts Toyota, Ericsson, the University of Toronto, and Domino’s as some of its clients, among many other companies and organizations.

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