medium severity February 11, 2026 · 1 min read

Anywhere Real Estate 17K Records — February 2026

If you have an account with Anywhere Real Estate, here’s what’s now in circulation.

Real-estate brokerage Anywhere Real Estate disclosed a breach exposing PII for approximately 17,000 clients in February 2026.

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Real-estate brokerage Anywhere Real Estate disclosed a breach exposing PII for approximately 17,000 clients in February 2026. Real-estate transaction records are high-value for doxxing because they tie a person's real name to a confirmed home address — the foundational input for swatting-style attacks.

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What You Should Do

If you bought/sold a home through Anywhere or an affiliated brand recently, treat your address as exposed
For public figures: consider a P.O. box or LLC ownership for future transactions
Monitor public-records aggregators (Spokeo, Whitepages) for re-publication

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. That’s what a Deep Sweep buys.

value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo

value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified

value redacted in this sample637 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.

Check your exposure

Anywhere Real Estate is one breach. Your email is probably in others.

~17,000 accounts were exposed here. We can’t confirm any single incident against the sources we search, so we won’t pretend to — what we can show you is your own exposure: every leak and listing tied to your email, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

Report details & sourcing

Severity Medium

Disclosed February 11, 2026

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected ~17,000

Data exposed Client PIIReal-estate transaction detailsContact information

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Editorial & sourcing policy

GalaxyWarden is a breach-monitoring service and news aggregator. We do not exfiltrate, host, purchase, or redistribute stolen data. Breach information is compiled from publicly accessible sources and threat-intelligence platforms, and is reported as claims attributed to their source. We promptly correct or remove material shown to be inaccurate — see our content & takedown policy or write to support@galaxywarden.com.

Sources: Industry coverage (Feb 2026)

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