Japanese media group Nikkei (publisher of The Nikkei and the Financial Times) disclosed a data breach affecting about 1.83 million records held in a cloud service used for system development. On the morning of October 7, attackers used previously compromised credentials to access the service. About 1.68 million records held only non-ident…
Federal investigators examining ShinyHunters have uncovered potential links between the extortion group and executives at two ransomware negotiation firms, according to a KrebsOnSecurity report published on October 19. An executive at an unnamed U.S. consulting firm (reportedly 1,000+ employees) allegedly helped operate the group's extort…
OpenCode disclosed on X on October 17 a security breach affecting 1.4% of its Console users, which it attributes to a "large-scale distillation attack". The affected accounts belong to users who had connected external providers. The company emailed affected users the following morning and says anyone who did not receive a notice was not i…
In September 2024 the French national pension fund Assurance Retraite suffered a data breach affecting approximately 370k assistance beneficiaries. The dataset was added to Have I Been Pwned on 20 Oct 2026 and contains 70.4k unique email addresses. Exposed data includes names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, income leve…
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a third data breach in about a month, exposing 1.83 million records stored in the cloud. Attackers used stolen credentials to access a development system in the early hours of October 7. About 150,000 records contained at least one of: full names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers or dates of birth, …
Publicly reported data breaches in the US reached an all-time high last year, with over 3,300 incidents and nearly 280 million victim notices. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that over 471 million notices went out in the first half of 2026, but only 24% described the attack vector, the lowest rate it has recorded. The ar…
In mid-2026, user records allegedly taken from Golf Canada began circulating on Telegram, and Have I Been Pwned added them to its database on 22 Aug 2026. The dataset covers 569k unique email addresses with names, usernames, dates of birth, genders and approximate locations (city, province, postcode). The breach is dated May 2026. It is u…
In August 2026, Australian beauty retailer Oz Hair and Beauty was targeted in an extortion attack by the group xpl0itrs. The group subsequently published data allegedly stolen from the company. The leak contains roughly 2M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, geographic locations (suburb and postcode) and purchase recor…
In August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates. The breach exposed roughly 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes. OTW self-submitted the data to Have I Been Pwned, which added it on 19 Aug 2026 (144.5k af…
In July 2025, the German news service NIUS suffered a data breach whose data was subsequently leaked publicly. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset on 23 Aug 2026. It covers 6k unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and payment details tied to purchases. HIBP flagged the breach as sensitive, so it is not publicly searc…
In August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach affecting its services. The FulcrumSec hacking group later claimed the incident and published data relating to 8.8M customers of Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports. The leaked data includes email addresses and phone numbers, along with airport service rec…
The now-defunct B2B marketing leads service LimeLeads suffered a data breach in August 2019 after an Elasticsearch server was left exposed and unsecured. The incident exposed tens of millions of records of largely corporate contact data, covering 17.8M unique email addresses. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset on 22 Sep 2026. The article…
A breach of the Mindbox marketing automation platform in August 2024 exposed data belonging to Burger King Russia customers. News of the incident broke in October 2024, and the dataset was added to Have I Been Pwned on 21 Sep 2026. It contains 3.2M unique email addresses along with names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and approxi…
In October 2026, the Discord server protection service Double Counter suffered a data breach attributed to a vulnerability in the Metabase analytics tool. The company's disclosure notice states that attackers accessed a subset of its data. That data was later published publicly and contains about 275k unique email addresses and Discord us…
Indian stock brokerage Angel One confirmed in July 2024 that data leaked online came from a breach that occurred in April 2023. The leak holds 7.9M user records covering 6.8M unique email addresses. It was added to Have I Been Pwned on 7 Oct 2026. Angel One stated the breach "has no impact on client securities, funds, or credentials". The…
In Weekly Update 516, Troy Hunt comments on the Brinks Home incident, in which the company is the target of criminal extortion. He criticizes the company's FAQ as so heavily lawyered that it fails to answer basic incident response questions. Hunt describes a common breach pattern: attackers obtain data by vishing a target and abusing OAut…
Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) analysed the leak that ShinyHunters attributed to Carhartt. The leak was claimed to hold more than 50 GB of customer and employee records. The initial extraction showed 24,876,077 unique email addresses. Closer review showed that a large share came from the TPC-DS benchmark dataset (tpcdssf1000) store…
A threat actor using the handle ByteToBreach claims to have copied 10 databases from Ampath Laboratories, out of an environment said to contain roughly 375 databases. The claimed data includes HR and employee records, multiple patient databases, financial information and system-configuration data. The actor says the laboratory admissions …
A threat actor using the handle Alduin claims to be selling a customer dataset from Climb Up, described as the largest network of indoor climbing gyms in France. The listing advertises approximately 151,000 records covering customers across 29 locations, with data spanning January 2016 to March 2026. The seller asks for offers in XMR only…
Records were exported from the management information system (MIS) of Southville Primary School in Bristol during a targeted cyberattack, according to Bristol City Council. The council has not disclosed what data was taken or how many students, parents or staff are affected. The school has notified affected parents and guardians and repor…