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Lead Hunter data breach68.7M accounts compromised on 2020-03-04
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Lead Hunter was the source of a data breach dated 2020-03-04, exposing 68,693,853 accounts. The details below are mirrored from Have I Been Pwned and reflect the source's account of the incident at the time of publication.
Incident Report
| Target Organization | Lead Hunter |
|---|---|
| Source Name | LeadHunter |
| Domain | — |
| Breach Date | 2020-03-04 |
| Added to HIBP | 2020-06-03 |
| Accounts Compromised | 68,693,853(68.7M) |
| Data Exposed | Email addressesGendersIP addressesNamesPhone numbersPhysical addresses |
| Status | Verified by HIBP |
Description
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. The data contained 69 million unique email addresses across 110 million rows of data accompanied by additional personal information including names, phone numbers, genders and physical addresses. At the time of publishing, the breach could not be attributed to those responsible for obtaining and exposing it. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
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