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Breach occurred 2018-11-14Verifieddatanleads.com
What happened
In November 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected database believed to be hosted by a data aggregator. Upon further investigation, the data was linked to marketing company Data & Leads. The exposed Elasticsearch instance contained over 44M unique email addresses along with names, IP and physical addresses, phone numbers and employment information. No response was received from Data & Leads when contacted by Bob and their site subsequently went offline.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Data & Leads data breach occurred on November 14, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on November 28, 2018.
44,320,330 accounts were affected by the Data & Leads data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Data & Leads breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Employers, IP addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Data & Leads breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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