high severity November 05, 2018 · 1 min read

Adapt Data Breach (2018)

If you are a customer of Adapt, here’s what’s now in circulation.

In November 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected database hosted by data aggregator "Adapt". A provider of "Fresh Quality Contacts", the service exposed over 9.3M unique records of individuals and employer information including their names, employers, job titles, contact information and data relating to the employer including organisation description, size and revenue. No response was received from Adapt when contacted.

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo

value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

value redacted in this sample582 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach

unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

Were you a Adapt customer?

Adapt is one listing. Your email is probably in others.

9.4M accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity High

Disclosed November 05, 2018

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 9.4M

Data exposed Email addressesEmployersJob titlesNamesPhone numbersPhysical addressesSocial media profiles

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Sources: Have I Been Pwned

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