Data breach
Factualfactual.com
2 461 696 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2017-03-22.
Breached2017-03-22Added to HIBP2019-12-24 UTCUpdated by HIBP2019-12-24 UTCAccounts2 461 696Domainfactual.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In March 2017, a file containing 8M rows of data allegedly sourced from data aggregator Factual was compiled and later exchanged on the premise it was a "breach". The data contained 2.5M unique email addresses alongside business names, addresses and phone numbers. After consultation with Factual, they advised the data was "publicly available information about businesses and other points of interest that Factual makes available on its website and to customers".
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Employers
- Phone numbers
- Physical addresses
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.