Employee background check firm breach exposes 3.3 million records
A data breach at an employee background check company exposed 3.3 million records. Initially, about 3 million people were reported to be affected, and hundreds of thousands of people in the US state of Massachusetts were also affected.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 3.3 million records exposed
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It was reported that about 3 million people had been affected by a background check company's data breach.
- It was reported that hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts had been affected.
- The number of records leaked by the employee background check company was reported to be 3.3 million.
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