Disclosed May 16, 2017·9y9 years ago·2,231,256 accounts·Unverified
In May 2017, the Bell telecommunications company in Canada suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of millions of customer records. The data was consequently leaked online with a message from the attacker stating that they were "releasing a significant portion of Bell.ca's data due to the fact that they have failed to cooperate with us" and included a threat to leak more. The impacted data included over 2 million unique email addresses and 153k survey results dating back to 2011 and 2012. There were also 162 Bell employee records with more comprehensive personal data including names,
What is known
People affected
2,231,256 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
Disclosed
May 16, 2017
Happened
May 15, 2017
Attack
Insider
Data exposed
Emails, Location, IP addresses, Employment, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers, Dates of birth
