Capital Economics data breach: 263K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2022-07-04
In December 2020, the economic research company Capital Economics suffered a data breach that exposed 263k customer records. The exposed data included email and physical addresses, names, phone numbers, job titles and the employer of impacted customers. Exposed data: email addresses, employers, job titles, names, phone numbers, physical addresses. The breach dates from Dec 12, 2020; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Jul 4, 2022.
What to do
- If you had a Capital Economics account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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