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high severity October 29, 2018 · 1 min read

Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on AWS Data Breach (2018)

If you are a customer of Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on, here’s what’s now in circulation.

In October 2018, security researcher Bob Diachenko identified multiple exposed databases with hundreds of millions of records. One of those datasets was an Elasticsearch instance on AWS containing sales lead data and 5.8M unique email addresses. The data contained information relating to individuals and the companies they worked for including their names, email addresses and company name and contact information. Despite best efforts, it was not possible to identify the owner of the data hence this breach as been titled "Elasticsearch Sales Leads".

Elasticsearch Instance of Sales Leads on AWS Data Breach (2018)

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.

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Report details & sourcing

Severity High contact details only, none of them permanent
Disclosed October 29, 2018
Last reviewed July 22, 2026
Affected 5.8M
Data exposed Email addressesEmployersNamesPhysical addresses
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