Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
27.9M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
6
0 high risk
Latest Breach
2021
BVD

Breach History

BVD
Aug 2021High
27.9M
Records exposed
6
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

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.

Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthEmail addressesJob titlesNamesPhone numbersPhysical addresses
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthMedium risk
Email addressesLow risk
Job titlesLow risk
NamesLow risk
Phone numbersMedium risk
Physical addressesMedium risk