Personal Data Leak Monitor

Public Business Data data breach

27.9M accounts from Public Business Data (bvdinfo.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included dates of birth, job titles and names.

Breach date
August 19, 2021
Accounts
27,917,714
Added to the database
October 9, 2023

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesJob titlesNamesPhone numbersPhysical addresses

What to do now

  1. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  3. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  4. Be alert to fake delivery or unpaid-bill texts and calls
  5. Be careful with unexpected mail or visitors

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About this breach

In approximately August 2021, hundreds of gigabytes of business data collated from public sources was obtained and later published to a popular hacking forum. Sourced from a customer of Bureau van Dijk's (BvD) "Orbis" product, the corpus of data released contained hundreds of millions of lines about corporations and individuals, including personal information such as names and dates of birth. The data also included 28M unique email addresses along with physical addresses (presumedly corporate locations), phone numbers and job titles. There was no unauthorised access to BvD's systems, nor did the incident expose any of their or parent company's Moody's clients.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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