verified2019-10-16

Data Enrichment Exposure From PDL CustomerData Enrichment Exposure From PDL Customer breach

622,161,052 records compromised

Records
622M
Breach date
2019-10-16
Data classes
7

Description

In October 2019, security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected Elasticsearch server holding 1.2 billion records of personal data . The exposed data included an index indicating it was sourced from data enrichment company People Data Labs (PDL) and contained 622 million unique email addresses. The server was not owned by PDL and it's believed a customer failed to properly secure the database. Exposed information included email addresses, phone numbers, social media profiles and job history data.

Compromised data classes· 7

Email addressesEmployersGeographic locationsJob titlesNamesPhone numbersSocial media profiles

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

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You've Been Scraped
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Lead Hunter
Sourced from Have I Been Pwned. Aggregate metadata only — no PII. Curated by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.