Category: Security News

In April 2024, a large trove of data made headlines as having exposed “3 billion people” due to a breach of the National Public Data background check service. The initial corpus of data released in the breach contained billions of rows of personal information, including US social security numbers. Further partial data sets were later released including extensive personal information and 134M unique email addresses, although the origin and accuracy of the data remains in question. This breach has been flagged as “unverified” and a full description of the incident is in the link above.

In September 2023, the cloud gaming provider Shadow suffered a data breach that exposed over half a million customer records. The data included email and physical addresses, names and dates of birth.

In August 2024, over 332M rows of email addresses were posted to a popular hacking forum. The post alleged the addresses were scraped from cybersecurity firm SOCRadar, however an investigation on their behalf concluded that “the actor merely utilised functionalities inherent in the platform’s standard offerings, designed to gather information from publicly available sources”. There is no suggestion the incident compromised SOCRadar’s security or posed any risk to their customers. In total, the data set contained 282M unique addresses of valid email address format.

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In June 2024, the UK footwear chain Shoe Zone disclosed a data breach that was subsequently posted for sale on a popular hacking forum. The data included over 100k orders containing names, addresses, partial credit card numbers (card type and last 4 digits), and 46k unique email addresses. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “IntelBroker”.