Risk level: medium. Can you change it: no. Found in 7 breaches in this directory.
What this data is
Your job title, profession or industry as recorded by a service, sometimes with an employer name. It is collected by insurers, lenders, recruitment sites, professional networks and marketing forms.
The risk on its own
A job title opens no accounts and is often already on a professional profile. What it changes is the kind of scam you receive. A nurse, a payroll officer and a company director are each sent very different, and very specific, phishing.
The risk combined with other data
With your name, email address and employer it becomes the brief for a targeted attack on your workplace. Finance, HR and executive roles are prized because they can approve payments or release staff data. It also helps fraudsters pass lender and insurer checks that ask for an occupation.
How criminals use it
A payroll or accounts officer receives a convincing fake supplier email asking to update bank details for the next invoice run.
A company director is impersonated in an urgent email to junior staff asking for gift cards or a same day transfer.
Health and legal professionals are sent fake regulator or registration renewal notices that harvest their login.
A fake recruiter offers a role matching your exact job title, then asks for ID documents and bank details for onboarding.
What to do now
If you work in finance, HR or leadership, tell your IT or security team that your details leaked so they can watch for impersonation.
Confirm every request to change bank details or pay urgently by calling a known number, never one in the email.
Check recruiter approaches against the company's own careers page and never send ID documents before a verified interview.
Hide your employer and job title from public social profiles you do not use for work.
Treat renewal notices from professional bodies as unverified and log in through the regulator's website directly.
Frequently asked questions
My job title is on LinkedIn anyway. Why does a leak matter?
Because the leak joins it to your personal email and phone number, which lets scammers reach you outside the protections your work email has.
Which jobs get targeted most?
Roles that can move money or release data: accounts payable, payroll, HR, executives and their assistants, and anyone who manages supplier payments.
Should I tell my employer?
If your role handles payments, staff records or customer data, yes. It helps them flag impersonation attempts early.
Breaches that exposed this data
Exactis: 2018-06-01, 132M accounts, Credit status information, Dates of birth, Education levels, Email addresses, Ethnicities, Family structure
VNG: 2015-05-19, 25M accounts, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, IP addresses, Marital statuses, Names
Breach data sourced from Have I Been Pwned, used under CC BY 4.0. Additional breach metadata provided by XposedOrNot. DataExposed is an independent service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either.