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Covve data breach (2020)

In February 2020, a massive trove of personal information referred to as "db8151dd" was provided to HIBP after being found left exposed on a publicly facing Elasticsearch server.

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Covve
records
22.8M
SectorTechnology

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2020-02-20, Covve was affected by a data breach. Approximately 22,802,117 accounts were exposed. In February 2020, a massive trove of personal information referred to as "db8151dd" was provided to HIBP after being found left exposed on a publicly facing Elasticsearch server.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Covve
  2. covve.comhttps://covve.com

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