Exactis data breach
In June 2018, Exactis suffered a data breach that exposed credit status information, dates of birth, education levels, email addresses, ethnicities, family structure, financial investments, genders, home ownership statuses, income levels, ip addresses, marital statuses, names, net worths, occupations, personal interests, phone numbers, physical addresses, religions, and spoken languages. The breach affected 131,577,763 accounts. If you had an account there, change your password there, never reuse it anywhere else, and check your email address with the free scan.
- Breach date
- June 1, 2018
- Added to this tracker
- July 25, 2018
- Accounts affected
- 131,577,763
- Company domain
- exactis.com
- Data exposed
- Credit status information, dates of birth, education levels, email addresses, ethnicities, family structure, financial investments, genders, home ownership statuses, income levels, ip addresses, marital statuses, names, net worths, occupations, personal interests, phone numbers, physical addresses, religions, and spoken languages
Was my information in the Exactis breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with Exactis before June 2018, your information may have been included. The free Ghost Delete scan checks your email address against known data breaches, so run it to see whether your address shows up.
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What data was exposed?
In the Exactis breach, the exposed data was credit status information, dates of birth, education levels, email addresses, ethnicities, family structure, financial investments, genders, home ownership statuses, income levels, ip addresses, marital statuses, names, net worths, occupations, personal interests, phone numbers, physical addresses, religions, and spoken languages.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at Exactis right away, and anywhere else you reused it.
- Never reuse passwords: give every account a unique password.
- Watch for phishing emails and messages that use the exposed data to look convincing, and go to the site directly instead of clicking links.
- Run the free breach scan to check your email address against other breaches.
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