Data Leakage
Articles and discussions related to data leakage prevention, data loss incidents, and best practices for data protection.
Introduction The latest breach involves Date Hot Brunettes with a domain of datehotbrunettes.com. This breach occurred on 2021-01-12. Overview In January 2021, the now defunct website Date Hot Brunettes which provided a service to "Date Neglected Women Who Can Keep a Secret", suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.5M unique email addresses along with […]
Introduction The latest breach involves Ticketek with a domain of ticketek.com.au. This breach occurred on 2024-05-31. Overview In May 2024, the Australian event ticketing company Ticketek reported a data breach linked to a third party cloud-based platform. The following month, the data appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum and was later linked to […]
Introduction The latest breach involves US Federal Reserve with a domain of Federalreserve.gov This breach occurred on 2024-06-25. Overview On June 25, 2024, the US Federal Reserve (federalreserve.gov) was breached by the ransomware group LockBit. This attack is part of LockBit’s extensive history of targeting critical infrastructure and demanding large ransoms. Law enforcement agencies, including […]
Introduction The latest breach involves Advance Auto Parts with a domain of advanceautoparts.com. This breach occurred on 2024-06-05. Overview In June 2024, Advance Auto Parts confirmed they had suffered a data breach which was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. Linked to unauthorised access to Snowflake cloud services, the breach exposed a large […]
Introduction The latest breach involves Zadig & Voltaire with a domain of zadig-et-voltaire.com. This breach occurred on 2023-11-16. Overview In June 2024, a data brach sourced from French fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire was publicly posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included names, email and physical addresses, phone numbers and genders. When contacted […]
Introduction The latest breach involves Telegram Combolists with a domain of . This breach occurred on 2024-05-28. Overview In May 2024, [service] 2B rows of data with 361M unique email addresses were collated from malicious Telegram channels. The data contained 122GB across 1.7k files with email addresses, usernames, passwords and in many cases, the website […]
Introduction The latest breach involves Operation Endgame with a domain of . This breach occurred on 2024-05-30. Overview In May 2024, a coalition of international law enforcement agencies took down a series of botnets in a campaign they coined "Operation Endgame". Data seized in the operation included impacted email addresses and passwords which were provided […]
Introduction The latest breach involves pcTattletale with a domain of pctattletale.com. This breach occurred on 2024-05-25. Overview In May 2024, the spyware service pcTattletale suffered a data breach that defaced the website and posted tens of gigabytes of data to the homepage, allegedly due to pcTattletale not responding to a previous security vulnerability report. The […]
Introduction The latest breach involves Dota2 with a domain of dev.dota2.com. This breach occurred on 2016-07-10. Overview In July 2016, the Dota2 official developers forum suffered a data breach that exposed almost 2 million users. The hack of the vBulletin forum led to the disclosure of email and IP addresses, usernames and passwords stored as […]
Introduction The latest breach involves The Post Millennial with a domain of thepostmillennial.com. This breach occurred on 2024-05-02. Overview In May 2024, the conservative news website The Post Millennial suffered a data breach. The breach resulted in the defacement of the website and links posted to 3 different corpuses of data including hundreds of writers […]