Bureau van Dijk – 27,917,714 breached accounts

In approximately August 2021, hundreds of gigabytes of data produced by Bureau van Dijk (BVD) was obtained and later published to a popular hacking forum. BVD claims to “capture and treat private company information for better decision making and increased efficiency”, and 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.

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PaySystem.tech (unverified) – 1,410,764 breached accounts

In mid-2022, data alleged to have been sourced from the Russian payment provider PaySystem.tech appeared in hacking circles where it was made publicly available for download. Consisting of 16M rows with 1.4M unique email addresses, the data also included purchases and full credit card numbers and expiry dates. The data could not be independently attributed back to PaySystem.tech and the breach has been flagged as “unverified”.

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