CFPB · Broad respondent spread
Improper contact or sharing of info
10.0K CFPB complaints · 1.4K companies (broad spread) · top product Debt collection.
"Improper contact or sharing of info" names 1.4K companies (broad spread) on 10.0K filings · Encore Capital Group 3.9%. Allegations, not findings.
- Volume rank #60 of 178
- Encore Capital Group 3.9% of filings
- Data updated June 2026
- Broad respondent spread
Companies filing under "Improper contact or sharing of info"
Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database
"Improper contact or sharing of info" across a broad respondent set
"Improper contact or sharing of info" appears across 1,417 distinct companies in the CFPB public record, a wide respondent spread for this allegation label. Respondent breadth sits in the upper third of the indexed issue corpus. No single company exceeds 3.9% of these filings.
With 1,417 companies named, the pattern may reflect how a product category is sold or serviced rather than one firm's operations. Most filings pair with "Debt collection". Consumer wording drives the label, not a regulatory finding. See methodology for how CFPB complaint routing works.
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Data sourced from official public datasets for "Improper contact or sharing of info" (#60 of 178; 1.4K companies). methodology.
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