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Lead Hunter data breach (2020)

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

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Lead Hunter
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68.7M
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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 2020-03-04, Lead Hunter was affected by a data breach. Approximately 68,693,853 accounts were exposed. In March 2020, a massive trove of personal information referred to as "Lead Hunter" 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#LeadHunter

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