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Public Business Data

Disclosed Oct 9, 20232 years ago27,917,714 accountsUnverified

In approximately August 2021, hundreds of gigabytes of business data collated from public sources was obtained and later published to a popular hacking forum . Sourced from a customer of Bureau van Dijk's (BvD) "Orbis" product, the corpus of data released contained hundreds of millions of lines about corporations and individuals, including personal information such as names and dates of birth. The data also included 28M unique email addresses along with physical addresses (presumedly corporate locations), phone numbers and job titles. There was no unauthorised access to BvD's systems, nor did

What is known

People affected27,917,714 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned)
DisclosedOct 9, 2023
HappenedAug 19, 2021
AttackHacking
Data exposedDates of birth, Emails, Employment, 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: Public Business Datahaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator

Notices filed

WhereFiledPeople
Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the dataOct 9, 202327,917,714
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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