Bell (2014 breach)

What Happened

In February 2014, Bell Canada suffered a data breach via the hacker collective known as NullCrew. The breach included data from multiple locations within Bell and exposed email addresses, usernames, user preferences and a number of unencrypted passwords and credit card data from 40,000 records containing just over 20,000 unique email addresses and usernames.

Compromised Data

Credit cards
Genders
Passwords
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    20.9 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    February 2014

  • Added to HIBP:

    1 Feb 2014

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