Pipl Customer MongoDB 188M Profiles Data Leak Data Breach
In June 2019, an unsecured MongoDB cluster housing personal records curated by identity enrichment and people-search provider Pipl (pipl.com) was identified exposed to the public internet.
Exposed Data Types
1 sensitive7- Court records
- Names
- Physical addresses
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
- Dates of birth
- Financial indicators
About This Breach
Forensic examination revealed approximately 188,000,000 comprehensive consumer and citizen profiles. The compromised data fields include full legal names, street addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, civil and criminal court record indicators, and bankruptcy filings.
Pipl clarified that the exposure stemmed from a misconfigured customer database utilizing Pipl-sourced data rather than an internal infrastructure breach. The mass aggregation of demographic and public records poses significant exposure to synthetic identity theft and targeted executive profiling.
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