Breach Intelligence

In approximately April 2016, KnownCircle, a company providing marketing automation for agents and professional service providers, allegedly suffered a data breach in which a large volume of data was obtained by an external party. The now-defunct service’s data appeared in JSON format and reportedly contained gigabytes of information related to the real estate and insurance sectors. The exposed data appeared to be primarily marketing-related, including logs of emails sent and gift card tracking. A small number of staff passwords were also included and stored as bcrypt hashes.