In April 2024, the French sporting equipment manufacturer Sport 2000 announced it had suffered a data breach. The data was subsequently put up for sale on a popular hacking forum and included 4.4M rows with 3.2M unique email addresses alongside names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and purchases made by store name. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “oathnet.ru”.
Organizations of all sizes are being targeted by bad actors, which is why cybersecurity awareness training is more important than ever. Unfortunately, most organizations are not motivated to implement such training. A study by IBM found that barely half (51%) of organizations that had already experienced a data breach in the past year planned to …
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In September 2022, the in-game trading marketplace Traderie suffered a data breach that exposed almost 400k records (this preceded a subsequent breach the following year). The incident exposed email and IP addresses, usernames and links to social media profiles. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “oathnet.ru”.
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