high severity October 17, 2024 · 3 min read

Free Data Breach (2024)

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

In October 2024, French ISP "Free" suffered a data breach which was subsequently posted for sale and later, leaked publicly. The data included 14M unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth and for many records, IBAN bank account numbers. Free advised that the numbers were "not enough to make a direct debit from a bank".

On October 17, 2024, French ISP Free was listed in a major data breach database after a 2024 incident that exposed records belonging to 13.9 million customers. The breach, which later appeared for sale and was eventually leaked publicly, includes highly sensitive personal and financial details that can be used for identity theft, account takeovers, and targeted fraud against you and your family.

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Reported Details from the Disclosure

The primary disclosure confirms that the compromised dataset contains 14 million unique email addresses, along with names, physical addresses, phone numbers, genders, dates of birth, and, for many records, IBAN bank account numbers. Free stated that the bank details “were not enough to make a direct debit from a bank,” yet the volume and combination of data still creates serious risk. The company has not publicly quantified exactly how many records included full financial details, and the leak-site listing does not detail the precise attack vector used to obtain the information.

The breach occurred sometime in 2024 and was first surfaced through Have I Been Pwned, which tracks such incidents based on verified datasets. This marks another significant exposure for a major European telecommunications provider handling millions of residential customer records.

Why This Matters for You and Your Family

When your name, address, phone number, date of birth, gender, email address, and potentially your IBAN are all bundled together, criminals gain the raw material needed to impersonate you convincingly. Fraudsters can use this information to open accounts in your name, apply for credit, or convince customer-service representatives at other companies that they are speaking with the legitimate account holder.

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Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

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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.

Report details & sourcing

Severity High includes account details that can be misused directly

Disclosed October 17, 2024

Last reviewed July 22, 2026

Affected 13.9M

Data exposed Bank account numbersDates of birthGendersNamesPhone numbersPhysical addresses

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