In September 2026, Swiss medical device company Medela was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The data allegedly obtained in the breach was later published and covers about 424k unique email addresses, mostly belonging to healthcare professionals, Medela staff and sales leads. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset …
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 August 2026, data centre operator CyrusOne was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group later published data allegedly stolen from the company, covering about 373k unique email addresses across records for users, sales leads and CyrusOne employees. The data is mostly corporate contact information, and also …
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 January 2026, the company intelligence platform Crunchbase was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. Data allegedly stolen from the company was later published, covering about 560k unique email addresses, mostly belonging to leads and business contacts. Crunchbase subsequently confirmed that a threat actor had exf…
In August 2026, the food and animal safety company Neogen was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group later published data it claimed to have obtained from Neogen. The data consists largely of corporate contact records and includes 436k unique email addresses drawn from mailing lists, employee records and oth…
In August 2026, the digital health company Sharecare was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data it claimed was taken from Sharecare's systems, containing 318k unique email addresses. Most of the data consists of B2B sales and marketing records, including names, physical addresses…
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…
In May 2026, the French holiday rental network Gîtes de France suffered a data breach affecting some of its departmental branches. The incident exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records, including roughly 118k unique email addresses. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset on 18 Oct 2026, with 117.6k affected addresses. The article do…
In Weekly Update 519, Troy Hunt describes a busy week of conference talks in Oslo and Copenhagen, including a 3D printing talk, an NDC infosec talk and a talk on cyber-related topics. He also notes that "ratbag hackers" keep dumping more data, but the excerpt names no victims, threat actors, datasets or dates. The rest covers his IoT door…
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 reader comment on Schneier on Security discusses the arrest of a suspect in a case involving the hacking of FBI systems. The comment cites Reuters reporting that the person involved was a contractor working for Accenture, and that the bureau says it has "removed the contractor" and taken steps to protect its workforce. The commenter, Cl…
A new dark web identity theft service called Nexus, advertised on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit on Aug. 31, 2026, is selling scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada. It also lists over 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents and 579,000 medical cards. KrebsOnSecurity's analysis points to the …
A New Jersey court has ordered radaris.com and 13 other domains in the Radaris family of people-search sites transferred to Atlas Data Privacy Corp. The ruling came after the defendants repeatedly failed to appear and defend a suit alleging violations of Daniel's Law, which requires data brokers to remove personal information of law enfor…
An interview with Jaymie Thomas, Co-founder of AI Wales, urges Welsh SMEs to begin AI adoption with small, measurable projects and not to delay out of fear of falling behind. The article is industry commentary and describes no specific incident, threat actor or vulnerability. Its main security-relevant point is "shadow AI": Deloitte's 202…
Analysis by Bridewell of reports to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found more than 26,000 data breaches caused by human error between 2020 and 2025. Annual human-error breaches rose from 3,847 to 5,496 (+43%). The leading cause is data emailed to the wrong recipient (11,214 incidents, up 62% from 1,519 in 2020 to 2,459 in …
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a reprimand and enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after officers and staff shared personal information through the unapproved third-party platform Auror without adequate data protection safeguards. The platform was used between March 2023 and September 2024, w…
An actor using the handle Feel claims to have leaked data tied to IAD France, a French real estate network that supports property buying, selling and rental. The listing references three JSONL files: 8,592 agent records, 112,780 property records and 8,592 user-photo records. A sample archive is advertised, and the full download is gated b…