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The car inquiry had the street
They stopped the lot on Friday. Today they counted the enquiry forms.
Recruit said Carsensor.net, including the app, and the dealer tool C-MATCH were reached. It saw odd access on 17 October and stopped the related services around 17:00 that day. By the 20th it had a field list. The ceiling is 3,709,551. Cards are not in it. Login passwords are not in it.
The big slice is 3,210,421 people who enquired with a dealer: 3,176,375 are name and address. 33,247 are enquiry text, age band, gender. 799 are phone or email. Addresses are usually city-and-ward. Up to 447,670 may include the town, the ban, the building. 5,289 review-poster names sit in the same notice. On the dealer side, 483,168 C-MATCH shops: representative and staff names and phones, antique-dealer licence numbers, login IDs. Sole traders may also have a business address and a direct-debit account. Another 10,673 rows are Recruit staff, including leavers, contractors, and agency staff: name and email.
What 3.17 million names will be asked to cover
It will be briefed as every Carsensor account. Most of this file is people who asked a shop a question, not people who stored a card on the app. It will be briefed as “only the ward.” Up to 447,670 rows may have the street. A sole trader’s debit account is not a finding that every dealer’s till left.
If you mailed a Carsensor shop, wait for their letter. A text that already knows the car you asked about is the next page of the enquiry. Do not send a licence copy to a reset that arrives first. A dealer login ID in this file is a shop problem, not a buyer password.
The lot is still closed. The street is the part of the form that keeps working.
Cite: Fabio Correia, “The car inquiry had the street”, 2026-10-21. https://www.fabiocti.com/notes/the-car-inquiry-had-the-street/. Markdown: https://www.fabiocti.com/notes/the-car-inquiry-had-the-street.md
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