DemandScience by Pure Incubation – 121,796,165 breached accounts

In early 2024, a large corpus of data from DemandScience (a company owned by Pure Incubation), appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum. Later attributed to a leak from a decommissioned legacy system, the breach contained extensive data that was largely business contact information aggregated from public sources. Specifically, the data included 122M unique corporate email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, employers and job titles. It also included names and for many individuals, a link to their LinkedIn profile.

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Layering Defences to Safeguard Sensitive Data Within AI Systems

Layering Defences to Safeguard Sensitive Data Within AI Systems

Strategies for mitigating privacy and security risks As artificial intelligence develops relentlessly, organisations face a thorny problem: How can you harness the transformative power of AI tools and systems while ensuring the privacy and security of your sensitive data? We put the question to our head of AI product marketing, Camden Woollven. In this interview What security or privacy challenges do organisations face when using AI tools? The risk of inadvertently exposing sensitive data is a big one. Most generative AI systems are basically a massive ‘sponge’. The language models are trained by soaking up huge quantities of publicly available
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Hot Topic – 56,904,909 breached accounts

In October 2024, retailer Hot Topic suffered a data breach that exposed 57 million unique email addresses. The impacted data also included physical addresses, phone numbers, purchases, genders, dates of birth and partial credit data containing card type, expiry and last 4 digits.

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