Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online
20-07-2026 14:00 via theregister.com

Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online

More than 23 million people who signed up to earn money from online gigs have allegedly had their personal and financial information spilled onto the internet following a breach of microtask platform Paidwork. The incident was added to Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned site after a database allegedly stolen from Paidwork was publicly released earlier this month. According to the breach notification service, the leak contains data on 23,272,765 users and traces back to an intrusion in March. The data
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