ShellCodeX Breach Report
Capital Economics Data Breach
capitaleconomics.com
Verified breach
Accounts exposed
263,829
Breach date
12 Dec 2020
Added to tracker
04 Jul 2022
Data classes
6
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.
Exposed data
Email addresses
Employers
Job titles
Names
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
Recommended actions
- Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Capital Economics — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
- Stay alert for smishing (SMS phishing) and SIM-swap attempts using your phone number.
- Exposed identity data raises identity-theft risk — consider credit monitoring or a credit freeze.
- Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.
Am I affected?
Check whether your email address appears in this breach.
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