CriticalBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 9 Mar 2019

Verifications.io — 763.1M accounts

Severity: Critical · Kind: Data breach

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From the source

In February 2019, the email address validation service verifications.io suffered a data breach . Discovered by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia , the breach was due to the data being stored in a MongoDB instance left publicly facing without a password and resulted in 763 million unique email addresses being exposed. Many records within the data also included additional personal attributes such as names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders. No passwords were included in the data. The Verifications.io website went offline during the disclosure process, although an archived copy remains viewable .

Breach facts

Accounts affected
763,117,241
Verified
Yes
Sensitive
No
Domain
verifications.io
Data exposed
Dates of birthEmail addressesEmployersGendersGeographic locationsIP addressesJob titlesNamesPhone numbersPhysical addresses

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