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Breach occurred 2021-08-19Verifiedbvdinfo.com
What happened
In approximately August 2021, hundreds of gigabytes of business data collated from public sources was obtained and later published to a popular hacking forum. Sourced from a customer of Bureau van Dijk's (BvD) "Orbis" product, the corpus of data released contained hundreds of millions of lines about corporations and individuals, including personal information such as names and dates of birth. The data also included 28M unique email addresses along with physical addresses (presumedly corporate locations), phone numbers and job titles. There was no unauthorised access to BvD's systems, nor did the incident expose any of their or parent company's Moody's clients.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Public Business Data data breach occurred on August 19, 2021. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on October 9, 2023.
27,917,714 accounts were affected by the Public Business Data data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Public Business Data breach exposed the following data types: Dates of birth, Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Public Business Data breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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