Security News > 2023 > February > TruthFinder, Instant Checkmate confirm data breach affecting 20M customers
PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers.
TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate are subscription-based services allowing customers to perform background checks on other people.
On January 21st, a member of the Breached hacking and data breach forum leaked the data for allegedly 20.22 million TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate customers who used the services up to April 16th, 2019.
The exposed TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate customer information includes email addresses, hashed passwords, first and last names, and phone numbers.
Today, PeopleConnect published notices on both Instant Checkmate and TruthFinder confirming that both services suffered a data breach.
"We learned recently that a list, including name, email, telephone number in some instances, as well as securely encrypted passwords and expired and inactive password reset tokens, of TruthFinder subscribers was being discussed and made available in an online forum," reads the data security incident notices.
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