Capital Economics Data Breach

What Happened

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.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Employers
Job titles
Names
Phone numbers
Physical addresses

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    263.8 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    December 2020

  • Added to HIBP:

    4 Jul 2022

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