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critical severity October 16, 2019 · 1 min read

Data Enrichment Exposure From PDL Customer Data Breach (2019)

If you have an account with this organisation, here’s what’s now in circulation.

In October 2019, security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko identified an unprotected Elasticsearch server holding 1.2 billion records of personal data. The exposed data included an index indicating it was sourced from data enrichment company People Data Labs (PDL) and contained 622 million unique email addresses. The server was not owned by PDL and it's believed a customer failed to properly secure the database. Exposed information included email addresses, phone numbers, social media profiles and job history data.

Data Enrichment Exposure From PDL Customer Data Breach (2019)

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 named in this one?
This is one listing. Your email is probably in others.
622.2M 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.

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Report details & sourcing

Severity Critical
Disclosed October 16, 2019
Last reviewed July 22, 2026
Affected 622.2M
Data exposed Email addressesEmployersGeographic locationsJob titlesNamesPhone numbersSocial media profiles
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