Major data leak: Sensitive credit rating data freely available online - Consumer Data GmbH (ICD) from Baden-Baden, which is part of the Experian Group #21360
"The creditworthiness data of millions of consumers, including information on dunning procedures or private insolvencies, was freely accessible online for several hours at the weekend. This was due to a major data leak at one of Germany's most important credit agencies, infoscore Consumer Data GmbH (ICD) from Baden-Baden, which is part of the Experian Group. Like Germany's best-known credit agency, Schufa, infoscore assesses the solvency of consumers.
The data leak was uncovered by activist Lilith Wittmann. "On the weekend, I had access to the credit reports of everyone in Germany at Experian (previously Arvato Infoscore). This means I was able to make thousands of inquiries and received a credit score and negative characteristics for each person (such as information on dunning procedures or personal insolvencies)," she wrote in a LinkedIn post. Several million consumers were presumably affected by the data leak. According to the company, infoscore's data pool contains almost 40 million pieces of up-to-date information on the negative payment behavior of over 7.8 million consumers."
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"The creditworthiness data of millions of consumers, including information on dunning procedures or private insolvencies, was freely accessible online for several hours at the weekend. This was due to a major data leak at one of Germany's most important credit agencies, infoscore Consumer Data GmbH (ICD) from Baden-Baden, which is part of the Experian Group. Like Germany's best-known credit agency, Schufa, infoscore assesses the solvency of consumers.
The data leak was uncovered by activist Lilith Wittmann. "On the weekend, I had access to the credit reports of everyone in Germany at Experian (previously Arvato Infoscore). This means I was able to make thousands of inquiries and received a credit score and negative characteristics for each person (such as information on dunning procedures or personal insolvencies)," she wrote in a LinkedIn post. Several million consumers were presumably affected by the data leak. According to the company, infoscore's data pool contains almost 40 million pieces of up-to-date information on the negative payment behavior of over 7.8 million consumers."