ApexSMS

What Happened

In May 2019, news broke of a massive SMS spam operation known as "ApexSMS" which was discovered after a MongoDB instance of the same name was found exposed without a password. The incident leaked over 80M records with 23M unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers and carriers, geographic locations (state and country), genders and IP addresses.

Compromised Data

Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
IP addresses
Names
Phone numbers
Telecommunications carrier

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    23.2 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    April 2019

  • Added to HIBP:

    21 Sep 2023

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