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Data breach

Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on AWS

5 788 169 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2018-10-29.

Breached2018-10-29Added to HIBP2018-11-17 UTCUpdated by HIBP2018-11-18 UTCAccounts5 788 169Domain—
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words

In October 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified multiple exposed databases with hundreds of millions of records. One of those datasets was an Elasticsearch instance on AWS containing sales lead data and 5.8M unique email addresses. The data contained information relating to individuals and the companies they worked for including their names, email addresses and company name and contact information. Despite best efforts, it was not possible to identify the owner of the data hence this breach as been titled "Elasticsearch Sales Leads".

Exposed data as HIBP classifies it

  • Email addresses
  • Employers
  • Names
  • Physical addresses

How HIBP qualifies it

  • HIBP verified that the data came from this service.

HIBP names no domain for this breach.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC