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,…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and issued an enforcement notice. Between March 2023 and September 2024, officers registered about 500 free accounts on the retail crime platform Auror without formal procurement, a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) or data-sharing …
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 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…
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…
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 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 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…