“We immediately launched a full containment protocol upon discovery,” said PDL spokesperson Maya Cortez. “Our preliminary investigation indicates that the exposed data relates to a subset of enterprise customers who used our identity verification services between 2022 and 2025. We have since secured the affected server and are rotating all internal access keys.”
PDL, a prominent data brokerage and identity verification service, has confirmed a significant customer data breach after a threat actor leaked a portion of its internal database on a cybercrime forum over the weekend. pdl customer breach
The breach, which appears to have occurred in late March 2026, reportedly exposed sensitive personal information belonging to thousands of individuals, including names, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and in some cases, partial financial data. “We immediately launched a full containment protocol upon
Additionally, PDL has reset passwords for all affected user accounts and is enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for any account that accesses its data brokerage portal going forward. The breach, which appears to have occurred in