Modern Business Solutions 2016 Data Breach
ObscureIQ Breach Intelligence
Low SeverityWebsite / service breach
Modern Business Solutions Data Hosting Breach: 58M Consumer Records Including DOB & Home Address
Data storage and marketing database hosting company.
Verified by ObscureIQ Intelligence
34/100Breach Risk Index
10Data Value
25Market Recency
512dSince Breach
Breach Intelligence Summary
Entity: Modern Business Solutions · Actor: Unknown · Sources: 8 references
Attack: Unknown
Profile: Data Services Company · Consumer and business data hosting, storage, and marketing database services · Data hosting and marketing database provider · USA
Timeline: Breach (2016-10-08) · Indexed (Dec 01, 2024) · Year (2016)
Exposure: 58.8M records · 8 fields: Date of Birth, Email Address, Full Name, Gender, IP Address, Job Information, Phone Number, Physical Address
Status: Confirmed
Executive Summary
Modern Business Solutions, a data storage and database hosting firm operating on behalf of marketing clients, suffered a large-scale data exposure when a MongoDB database containing roughly 58 million consumer records was shared publicly on social media. The database appeared to have been left accessible without authentication, pointing to a misconfiguration rather than an external intrusion. The company has never publicly acknowledged the incident or explained how it came to hold the data. The exposed records included names, email addresses, dates of birth, genders, home addresses, phone numbers, job titles, and IP addresses. The combination of dates of birth and physical addresses alongside contact details creates serious profiling risk. It provides enough information to support targeted phishing, identity fraud, and social engineering attacks against the people whose data appeared in the database. Modern Business Solutions issued no breach notification and took no publicly documented corrective action. Because the company operated as a backend data host rather than a consumer-facing business, the roughly 58 million individuals in the database had no direct relationship with the firm and would have had no reason to know their data was held there. That lack of visibility makes it harder for affected people to assess their exposure or take protective steps.
ObscureIQ assessment: High risk because the company may hold aggregated customer datasets from multiple clients. Exposure can enable phishing, profiling, and secondary compromise of hosted marketing databases.
Breach Impact
In October 2016 a large MongoDB database containing approximately 58 million consumer records was publicly shared on social media, linked to Modern Business Solutions. The exposed data included names, email addresses, dates of birth, genders, IP addresses, job titles, phone numbers, and home addresses. The database was left publicly accessible without authentication — a misconfiguration rather than an external attack. Modern Business Solutions never publicly acknowledged the incident or issued any notification to affected individuals. The records were third-party consumer data held on behalf of marketing clients, meaning the individuals whose data was exposed had no direct relationship with the company and likely had no way to know their data was held there.
About Modern Business Solutions
Modern Business Solutions was a data storage and marketing database hosting company that provided data management and database hosting services to marketing clients. The company operated modbsolutions.com and held large volumes of consumer data on behalf of clients. It is not a consumer-facing brand — its records represent data aggregated from and on behalf of third-party marketing customers.
Why They Hold Your Data
Data-hosting and marketing-database firms collect and store consumer, business, client, and campaign-linked records across hosting, storage, and database-management workflows.
Recent Developments
Modern Business Solutions has maintained no significant public presence following the 2016 incident. The company has not publicly acknowledged the breach or explained the circumstances of the exposure.
Data Points Exposed
8 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name High
Gender
IP Address
Job Information
Phone Number
Physical Address High
Field names are shown in full for clarity and search visibility. Canonical machine keys are emitted only in this page’s structured data.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
Threat Activity:High
Primary downstream threats:
- Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
- Employment-based social engineering using job and employer data
Threat vectors:
- Identity verification bypass
- Phishing, credential stuffing & account takeover
- Name-based social engineering
- Profile enrichment
- Geolocation & account flagging
- Vishing & authority impersonation
- SIM swapping, vishing & SMS phishing
- Physical stalking, mail fraud & identity verification
- Home targeting, stalking & physical threat
Recommended Actions
If you believe your information may be included:
Enable MFA Everywhere
Turn on multi-factor authentication on email first, then financial accounts.
Report & Recover
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happened in the Modern Business Solutions breach?▾
Modern Business Solutions, a data storage and database hosting firm operating on behalf of marketing clients, suffered a large-scale data exposure when a MongoDB database containing roughly 58 million consumer records was shared publicly on social media. The database appeared to have been left…
What data was exposed?▾
Verified fields include Date of Birth, Email Address, Full Name, Gender, IP Address, Job Information, Phone Number, Physical Address.
What should I do if I was affected?▾
Change reused passwords, enable MFA, and (if identity or financial data is involved) freeze your credit and monitor your accounts.
Sources & References
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