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Lead Hunter

Disclosed Jun 3, 20206 years ago68,693,853 accountsUnverified

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 .

What is known

People affected68,693,853 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedJun 3, 2020
HappenedMar 4, 2020
AttackExposed data
Data exposedEmails, IP addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Addresses
SectorTech
StatusUnverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization
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Sources

Source
Have I Been Pwned: Lead Hunterhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataJun 3, 202068,693,853
History of this record
  • 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source

First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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