📊 Bureau van Dijk
About this breach
Around July 2021, the publisher of business information, specializing in “data from private companies”, Bureau Van Dijk, a data leak occurred. The violation included complete names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, date of birth, positions, European VAT numbers, tax numbers, patents, patents. Names, companies and other data. A total of 484 million data lines.
Compromised Data
This breach exposed the following types of personal information:
Full name
468.5M
416.7% of accounts
Telephone
249.8M
222.2% of accounts
Email
112.4M
100% of accounts
The name of the company
46M
40.9% of accounts
Total data points: 876.6M
Unique accounts affected: 112.4M
🔐 What should I do?
- Change your password immediately if you had an account
- Enable two-factor authentication where possible
- Monitor your accounts for suspicious activity
- Be aware of potential phishing attempts
📊 Data Classes
👤 Full name
📞 Telephone
📩 Email
🏢 The name of the company
API Access
Get information about this breach programmatically:
GET https://data-wells.niamonx.io/api/breach/Bureau-van-Dijk