The weekly InfoStealers report for 12-19 October 2026 summarises stealer-log telemetry on compromised machines, credentials and sessions. The United States ranks 8 by country of infection with 438 machines. Gmail is the most affected email provider with 1,225,748 users, followed by Hotmail (90,554) and Yahoo (33,493). Sessions and saved c…
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 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…
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…
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…
In July 2026, the cloud-based business communications platform RingCentral was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data it claimed to have obtained from the platform, covering 1.6M unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and phone numbers. RingCentral stated in …
In August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group published data allegedly taken from the company, including 12.9M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The leaked corpus also held millions of synthetic records unrelated to real individuals,…
A threat actor using the handle ChimeraZ claims to have leaked a user dataset linked to ISEP, a French engineering school specializing in digital technology, computer science, electronics and cybersecurity. The listing advertises 5,091 lines covering 5,088 people in a 720 KB JSON dataset, with multiple download mirrors provided. The data,…
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, a dataset of 7.3M rows allegedly sourced from Chess.com was posted online, containing 4.6M unique email addresses. The data also included usernames, names, countries and account-related data. Analysis suggests the data was obtained by scraping rather than a direct breach of Chess.com systems. Have I Been Pwned added it on …
In August 2026, French intellectual property software and services company Questel was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group published a large corpus of data it claimed to have taken from the company. The data is largely corporate contact information tied to sales leads, support cases and marketing activit…
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 …
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…
An actor using the handle malconguerra2 claims to be sharing a dataset allegedly from KFC Venezuela, advertised at roughly 1.55 million records. The detailed description lists 1,542,021 JSON records totaling 17.5 GB. A visible sample shows customer and transaction fields: full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, ord…
An actor using the handle Shenron claims to have released a dataset tied to APICRYPT Messaging, a secure healthcare messaging system created in 1996 and managed by the APICEM association. The listing advertises 852,757 rows covering 60,911 users, and marks the breach and release as occurring in 2026. The visible sample contains healthcare…
Nikkei Inc., the Japanese media group that owns The Nikkei and the Financial Times, disclosed a breach of a cloud service used for system development. On October 7, attackers used previously stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access. As of October 16, about 1.83 million items of personal information had leaked. The company reported t…
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…
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, …
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 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…