high severity January 26, 2026 · 1 min read

Crunchbase Massive Personal Records Leak — January 2026

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

Crunchbase is reported to have suffered a high-severity data breach. Full verified details will be added here as they are confirmed.

ShinyHunters exfiltrated approximately 2 million records containing personal information from the business-intelligence platform Crunchbase. The group used vishing (voice phishing) to compromise an internal account and released a 400 MB archive on BreachForums after Crunchbase refused ransom demands.

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Executives, traders, founders, and investors tracked on Crunchbase now risk doxxing via their leaked contact details and funding histories. This data can be cross-referenced with gaming handles, streamer bios, or LinkedIn profiles for precise targeting — particularly concerning for tech executives and crypto-adjacent founders whose Crunchbase records often include their personal email or phone.

Why this matters

Crunchbase data is high-value because it correlates name + company + funding-stage + contact info in one place. Combined with a leaked dating-app or breach corpus, an attacker can build a complete profile of a target executive in minutes.

Recommended actions

What You Should Do

Search your professional email in any breach checker
Review and lock down your Crunchbase profile privacy settings
Switch to a forwarding email address for any business directory listings
Enable 2FA on every account using your professional email
Use a credential-monitoring service so you are alerted when your data appears in new dumps

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 sample580 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

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

~2 million 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 High contact details only, none of them permanent

Disclosed January 26, 2026

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected ~2 million

Data exposed NamesBusiness contact detailsFunding historiesEmail addressesPhone numbers

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Sources: SecurityWeek coverage · Security Affairs (Jan 26-27, 2026)

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