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Data & Leads data breach (2018)

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.

Victim
Data & Leads
records
44.3M
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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 2018-11-14, Data & Leads was affected by a data breach. Approximately 44,320,330 accounts were exposed. 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.

Sources

  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Data&Leads
  2. datanleads.comhttps://datanleads.com

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