1111 Job Bank
Taiwan's #2 online job bank, matching job seekers and employers since 1998.
On the record
Checkpoint: Possible PDPA enforcement action or fine over the 2024 breach disclosed in October 2025
The call
1111 stays Taiwan's number two job bank, held back by 104's scale and a 2024 breach it has yet to publicly address.
1111 Job Bank is a website where job seekers and employers find each other, with over 9 million workers and 4 million companies using it. The problem is that the larger competitor, 104 Job Bank, dominates the market and can copy anything 1111 does, plus a data breach in 2024 that exposed 3.86 million people's passwords in plain text has made users question whether their information is safe there. The one thing that could save 1111 is if it becomes the go-to site for a specific type of job (like blue-collar work or hiring foreign workers) where 104 is weaker, but right now there is nothing stopping people from just switching to 104 or LinkedIn instead.
Why
01
AI pressure: Generative AI job-matching agents and LinkedIn's AI tools. AI agents that search and apply for jobs directly could bypass 1111's listings and cut out the middleman entirely. Could AI do the core job? Only partly.
02
Bigger players: 104 Job Bank (104人力銀行). 104 leads Taiwan's job market and can copy any feature 1111 ships, keeping 1111 stuck at number two. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.
03
What protects it. 9 million+ registered job seekers and 4 million+ employer accounts already on the platform make switching costly for both sides.
What would change this call
PDPA regulator issues fine or enforcement order tied to the 2024 breach within 6 months. Would confirm regulatory consequences and likely accelerate user distrust and defection.
A second breach or new leak disclosure involving 1111 surfaces within a year. Would show the 2024 breach was not an isolated failure, deepening trust damage.
1111 publishes audited financials or confirms a TWSE/TPEx stock ticker. Would resolve current opacity about ownership and financial health.
A second breach or new leak disclosure involving 1111 surfaces within a year. Would show the 2024 breach was not an isolated failure, deepening trust damage.
1111 publishes audited financials or confirms a TWSE/TPEx stock ticker. Would resolve current opacity about ownership and financial health.
Key numbers
- 9M+ job seekers, 4M+ employer accounts
- 3.86M records leaked, passwords stored in plaintext
- Mobile app: 4.5 stars, 58,300+ reviews
Named risks
- Unresolved 2024 breach of 3.86M plaintext-password records with no public company response found.
- Total financial opacity, no revenue, filings, or confirmed listing status as of 2026.
- Structural exposure of job-board model to generative AI career assistants bypassing job boards.
- Number-two market position behind larger rival 104 with no structural barrier to feature copying.
Rivals, as read in July 2026
| Rival | Direction | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 104 Job Bank | losing to | 104 self-describes as Taiwan's most-used job bank; 1111 generally cited as #2 as of 2026 |
| CakeResume | gaining on | White-collar Taiwanese job seekers reportedly drifting to CakeResume as of 2026 |
| gaining on | Growing white-collar hiring presence in Taiwan noted alongside category erosion, 2026 |
Questions people ask
- Is 1111 Job Bank publicly traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange?
- No independent confirmation exists. Despite being tagged as publicly listed, no TWSE or TPEx ticker for 1111人力銀行 or its operating entity 全球華人股份有限公司 was found as of July 2026; it appears to operate as a private company.
- Is 1111 Job Bank profitable?
- Unknown. No financial filings, disclosed revenue, or analyst estimates for 1111 Job Bank were found as of July 2026, making profitability impossible to verify from public data.
- Did 1111 Job Bank suffer a data breach?
- Yes. A leak of 3,859,860 records including plaintext passwords, emails, and birthdates dated to August 2, 2024 was reported circulating on a darkweb forum, with a threat-intelligence disclosure published October 22, 2025.
- Who is 1111 Job Bank's biggest competitor?
- 104 Job Bank, which describes itself as Taiwan's most-used job bank by companies and job seekers. 1111 is generally cited as Taiwan's number two job board behind 104 as of 2026.
- Could AI replace 1111 Job Bank?
- 1111 already automates core workflows itself: as of a July 15, 2026 AWS case study, it uses Amazon Personalize and OpenSearch for matching, cutting job-description writing time by 67% and improving search error rate 33.01%, showing the model is AI-augmentable, not just AI-vulnerable.
- How big is 1111 Job Bank's user base?
- 1111 Job Bank reports serving over 9 million individual job seekers and 4 million employer accounts, per an AWS case study published July 15, 2026; these are company-supplied figures, not independently audited.
Timeline
- 2026-07-15AWS publishes case study detailing 1111's generative AI deployment and results
- 2026-07-131111 找工作 app holds 4.5 stars with 58,300+ reviews on Google Play
- 2025-10-22Threat-intelligence report discloses 2024 breach of 3.86M user records
- 2024-08-02Data breach exposing 3,859,860 records including plaintext passwords occurs
- 2022-011111 joins AWS Digital Innovation Program and migrates infrastructure to AWS
- 2019-04Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council scrutinizes 1111 over China-recruitment job postings
- 1998-011111 Job Bank founded in Taiwan
Revision history
26 July 2026
First assessed. Losing its protection. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.
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Sources
- 1111 Job Bank improves employment matching with generative AI (2026-07-15)
- 1111人力銀行(1111 Job Bank) Overview, Address & Contact
- 1111人力銀行人資加值平台
- Evidence brief research; no ticker found
- Working at 1111 Job Bank (2021-08-15)
- 1111 找工作-找正職/打工/兼職/實習最佳幫手 (2026-07-13)
- 1111 Job Bank (1111人力銀行) (2025-10-22)
- Evidence brief research
- 104人力銀行 job listing page
- Integrate 1111.com.tw with Manatal ATS
- Job banks, tutoring firms might have broken laws: MAC (2020-03-04)
- Evidence brief research; no funding records found