Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile – 319,613 breached accounts

In September 2024, the Instituto Nacional de Deportes de Chile (Chile’s National Sports Institute) suffered a data breach. The incident exposed 1.7M rows of data with 320k unique email addresses alongside names, dates of birth, genders and bcrypt password hashes. The newest records in the data date back to August 2022, suggesting the breach may be of an older data set.

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10 Common Cybersecurity Threats and How to Handle Them

Cybersecurity has always been an arms race where the enemy’s arsenal is more sophisticated than ever. These attacks are getting smarter, faster, and costlier, thanks to the advent of generative AI and the lack of an offense-based security culture. Once, it was enough to fend off the occasional virus with a simple antivirus scan. Now, …

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Cloud Access Security Broker Policy

The rise in cloud adoption has made it imperative for more businesses to rely on cloud providers to store, access, and manage their data and applications. While running applications and services in the cloud offers much-needed flexibility and scalability, it also introduces new security challenges. The purpose of this Cloud Access Security Broker Policy, created …

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Games Box – 1,439,354 breached accounts

In September 2020, now defunct website Games Box suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The impacted data included 1.4M email addresses alongside usernames, genders, ages and passwords stored as either a hash or plain text.

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