Data breach
Lead Hunter
68 693 853 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2020-03-04.
Breached2020-03-04Added to HIBP2020-06-03 UTCUpdated by HIBP2020-06-03 UTCAccounts68 693 853Domain—
Verified
What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In March 2020, a massive trove of personal information referred to as "Lead Hunter" was provided to HIBP after being found left exposed on a publicly facing Elasticsearch server. The data contained 69 million unique email addresses across 110 million rows of data accompanied by additional personal information including names, phone numbers, genders and physical addresses. At the time of publishing, the breach could not be attributed to those responsible for obtaining and exposing it. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Genders
- IP addresses
- Names
- Phone numbers
- 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