BureauvanDijk Data Breach (2021)

The Bureau van Dijk Orbis Data Breach in August 2021 led to the publication of hundreds of gigabytes of business data originally compiled from public sources. This extensive dataset, which was published on a popular hacking forum, contained comprehensive information on millions of corporate entities and individuals, including personal details such as names, dates of birth, 28 million unique email addresses, corporate physical addresses, phone numbers, and job titles. Importantly, the data breach did not result from unauthorized access to Bureau van Dijk’s systems, nor did it involve client data directly from BvD or its parent company, Moody's.