ConfirmedData breach
Paidwork: a data breach
In March 2026, hackers claimed they had obtained data from the gig economy platform Paidwork which they then listed for sale . Almost 11GB of data allegedly obtained from the platform was subsequently posted publicly in July and contained over 23M unique email addresses. The breach also included a broad range of other data relating to the operation of the platform including user profile data, banking information, payout history for workers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
The record
- Organisation
- Paidwork →
- Identity
- Paidworkidentified by its domain in a verified breach record
- Records affected
- 23,272,765 records
- Data exposed
- Bank account numbers, Dates of birth, Device information, Education levels, Email addresses, Financial transactions, Genders, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Personal interests, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Profile photos
- Sector
- Not recorded
- Occurred
- 2026-03-29
- Disclosed
- 2026-07-19
- First recorded here
- 2026-09-09
Sources (1)
One source so far.
- Have I Been Pwned ↗First reported
2026-07-19