The U.S. Census Bureau said a data breach early last week did not expose survey data it collects on households and businesses.
The leak came from a database belonging to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, which collects audit reports from government agencies and other organizations spending federal grants,
wrote John H. Thompson, the Census Bureau’s director, on Friday.
The exposed information included the names of people who submitted information, addresses, phone numbers, user names and other data, he wrote.
