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Breach occurred 2018-06-01Verifiedexactis.com
What happened
In June 2018, the marketing firm Exactis inadvertently publicly leaked 340 million records of personal data. Security researcher Vinny Troia of Night Lion Security discovered the leak contained multiple terabytes of personal information spread across hundreds of separate fields including addresses, phone numbers, family structures and extensive profiling data. The data was collected as part of Exactis' service as a "compiler and aggregator of premium business & consumer data" which they then sell for profiling and marketing purposes. A small subset of the exposed fields were provided to Have I Been Pwned and contained 132 million unique email addresses.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Exactis data breach occurred on June 1, 2018. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on July 25, 2018.
131,577,763 accounts were affected by the Exactis data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Exactis breach exposed the following data types: Credit status information, Dates of birth, Education levels, Email addresses, Ethnicities, Family structure, Financial investments, Genders, Home ownership statuses, Income levels, IP addresses, Marital statuses, Names, Net worths, Occupations, Personal interests, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Religions, Spoken languages.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Exactis breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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