Poppins Payroll household payroll data breach
Add to my breach checkMade public · 246,937 unknown nationally
What leaked4
Hard to replace
- Bank account number
Permanent
- Social Security number
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Bank account numberfinancial account numbers
To-dos6 · about 1 h 30 min in all
- Freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian and TransUnionStops: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Get an IRS Identity Protection PINStops: tax refund fraud (opens in a new tab)
- Place a fraud alert on your credit reportsLimits harm from: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Check your credit reports every week, freeHelps you notice: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Turn on instant transaction alertsHelps you notice: bank account fraud
- Freeze your NCTUE phone and utility fileLimits harm from: phone or utility account (opens in a new tab)
What happened next6 events
Disputes: 1 event
Back to latest- First class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado; more followed within days
- Company
- Poppins Payroll
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 246,937 unknown nationally; 17,954 Washington residents in Poppins Payroll's report to the Washington attorney general
How the facts developed
- Poppins Payroll's filing with the Texas attorney general (BR-0005380, published October 2, 2026) lists names, Social Security numbers, financial account information and dates of birth for 246,937 people
Sources
- Poppins Payroll company notice (opens in a new tab)checked October 23, 2026
- California Attorney General regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 23, 2026
- Washington State Office of the Attorney General regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 23, 2026
- Newsweek press (opens in a new tab)checked October 23, 2026
- Texas Attorney General regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 30, 2026