DataGardener Data Breach
The 2024 DataGardener data breach occurred on June 28, 2024, when unauthorized threat actors breached the databases of DataGardener (datagardener.com), a UK-based business intelligence, corporate financial analytics, and company director intelligence platform.
Exposed Data Types
7- Email addresses
- Names
- Phone numbers
- Job titles
- Geographic locations
- Social media profiles
- Company names
About This Breach
The extracted dataset was subsequently shared on dark web cybercrime forums.
What information was affected in the DataGardener incident?
The compromised records (spanning files datagardener-0.csv through datagardener-5.csv) encompass corporate profiles, executives, and company directors across the United Kingdom and internationally. The incident compromised records for 1,383,683 unique verified individuals, exposing:
- Personal & Professional Profiles: First names, last names, full names, corporate job positions, and executive roles.
- Contact Credentials: Canonical corporate email addresses, direct phone lines, and corporate headquarters contact numbers.
- Company & Financial Metadata: Official company names, UK Company Registration Numbers, corporate websites, industry sectors, employee counts, and SIC codes.
- Social & Geographic Identifiers: Executive LinkedIn profile URLs, company locations, states, cities, and postal codes.
How many accounts were affected?
Strict RFC canonical validation and deduplication confirmed 1,383,683 unique valid email addresses across 1,439,229 total data records.
Technical analysis and security risks
The combination of executive job titles, verified corporate emails, and linked LinkedIn profiles creates severe exposure to sophisticated spear-phishing campaigns, Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes, and targeted social engineering targeting finance and executive departments.
Recommended actions for affected users
Corporate executives and business professionals whose records were exposed should:
- Enforce robust, unique passwords across corporate email accounts and business services.
- Implement strict multi-person authorization protocols for financial transactions, invoice approvals, and wire transfers.
- Activate robust multi-factor authentication (MFA / 2FA) across all enterprise applications.
Verification and editorial method
LeakData compares the incident name, date, affected-record count, and exposed data types with accessible sources. Unverified fields are not presented as facts, and records are updated when new evidence becomes available.
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