ClarityCheck Data Breach Investigation
Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith is investigating potential class action claims against Delaware-based company ClarityCheck Inc. (“ClarityCheck”) on behalf of users and other individuals whose photographs, facial images, or personal information may have been exposed in a recently disclosed data security incident involving the company’s reverse-image and people-search services.
What Happened?
On August 19, 2026, cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler published a report concerning an allegedly unsecured cloud-storage database associated with ClarityCheck, a company that offers reverse-image, phone-number, email-address, and people-search services. According to Fowler, the database contained approximately 9,042,977 image files totaling 450.2 GB of data and was accessible without a password or other authentication.
It has not been verified whether the database was managed directly by ClarityCheck or by a third-party contractor. The total number of affected individuals also remains unknown because the reported 9.04 million files may include duplicate, cropped, and resized copies of the same images. The information potentially involved may vary by individual. Based on Fowler’s report and other public reporting, the exposed information may have included:
- Facial images
- Profile photographs
- Screenshots
- Photographs uploaded for reverse-image searches
- Cropped or resized versions of uploaded images
- Images depicting adults, teenagers, and children
- Names
- Email addresses
- Telephone numbers
- Physical addresses
Why Is This Important?
Facial images are particularly sensitive because a person cannot change their face in the same way that they can change a compromised password, payment-card number, or account credential. If facial images are obtained by unauthorized individuals, they may potentially be used for impersonation, fraudulent profiles, targeted phishing, catfishing, doxing, deepfakes, or other forms of identity-related fraud.
The potential exposure of photographs depicting children and teenagers raises additional privacy concerns. Some individuals whose photographs were uploaded to ClarityCheck may not have been users of the service and may not have known that their images were submitted, processed, or retained.
What Should You Do?
If you used ClarityCheck’s reverse-image search service, uploaded a photograph to ClarityCheck, discovered that your photograph or personal information appeared in a ClarityCheck search result, or believe that someone else may have submitted your photograph without your permission, you may have been affected by this incident.
You may also have been affected if you requested that ClarityCheck delete or suppress your photograph or personal information but later discovered that the information remained available.
Please contact our data breach attorneys by completing the form below to learn more about your potential legal rights and our ongoing investigation.
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