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Breach occurred 2017-05-15Verifiedbell.ca
What happened
In May 2017, the Bell telecommunications company in Canada suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of millions of customer records. The data was consequently leaked online with a message from the attacker stating that they were "releasing a significant portion of Bell.ca's data due to the fact that they have failed to cooperate with us" and included a threat to leak more. The impacted data included over 2 million unique email addresses and 153k survey results dating back to 2011 and 2012. There were also 162 Bell employee records with more comprehensive personal data including names, phone numbers and plain text "passcodes". Bell suffered another breach in 2014 which exposed 40k records.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Bell (2017 breach) data breach occurred on May 15, 2017. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on May 16, 2017.
2,231,256 accounts were affected by the Bell (2017 breach) data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Bell (2017 breach) breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Geographic locations, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Spoken languages, Survey results, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Bell (2017 breach) breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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