Zacks (2024) Data Breach

What happened?

In June 2024, the investment research company Zacks was allegedly breached, and data was later published to a popular hacking forum . This comes after a separate Zacks data breach confirmed by the organisation in 2023 with the subsequent breach disclosing millions of additional records representing a superset of data from the first incident. The 2024 breach included 12M unique email addresses along with IP and physical addresses, names, usernames, phone numbers and unsalted SHA-256 password hashes. Zacks did not respond to multiple attempts to contact them about the incident.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is June 22, 2024. The record was added to the catalogue on February 12, 2025 and last updated there on February 12, 2025.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Names
• Passwords
• Phone numbers
• Physical addresses
• Usernames

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Zacks (2024) or used zacks.com around June 22, 2024. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.