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Instant Checkmate

Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
11.9M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
4
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2019
InstantCheckmate

Breach History

InstantCheckmate
Apr 2019Critical
11.9M
Records exposed
4
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In 2019, the public records search service Instant Checkmate suffered a data breach that later came to light in early 2023. The data included almost 12M unique customer email addresses, names, phone numbers and passwords stored as scrypt hashes.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesNamesPasswordsPhone numbers
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Phone numbersMedium risk