RankWatch | Breaches

Welcome to our new version of sysinfo.org

Breach details for RankWatch

Title
RankWatch
Domain
rankwatch.com
Breach
2016-11-19
Added
2017-11-03T07:04:08Z
Modified
2017-11-03T07:04:08Z
Data Count
7445067
Description
In approximately November 2016, the search engine optimisation management company RankWatch exposed a Mongo DB with no password publicly whereupon their data was exfiltrated and posted to an online forum. The data contained 7.4 million unique email addresses along with names, employers, phone numbers and job titles in a table called "us_emails". When contacted and advised of the incident, RankWatch would not reveal the purpose of the data, where it had been acquired from and whether the data owners had consented to its collection. The forum which originally posted the data explained it as being "in the same vein as the modbsolutions leak", a large list of corporate data allegedly used for spam purposes.
Type of Data
Email addresses, Employers, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers