Triple DES offered 112-bit security through its three-step encryption process, but NIST deprecated it in 2018 and disallowed its use after 2023.
Triple DES offered 112-bit security through its three-step encryption process, but NIST deprecated it in 2018 and disallowed its use after 2023.
Information security (infosec) is a set of policies, procedures and principles for safeguarding digital data and other kinds of information.
In August 2025, over 1M unique email addresses appeared in a breach allegedly obtained from Italian fashion designer Giglio. The data also included names, phone numbers and physical addresses. Giglio did not respond to repeated attempts to disclose the incident.
In June 2025, 107k unique customer email addresses were allegedly obtained from TheSqua.re, the “easiest way to find your next serviced apartment”. The data also included names, phone numbers and cities which were subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum. TheSqua.re did not respond to repeated attempts to disclose the incident, however multiple impacted HIBP subscribers confirmed the legitimacy and accuracy of the data.
In July 2025, Allianz Life was the victim of a cyber attack which resulted in millions of records later being leaked online. Allianz attributed the attack to “a social engineering technique” which targeted data on Salesforce and resulted in the exposure of 1.1M unique email addresses, names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and physical addresses.
In June 2025, headlines erupted over a “16 billion password” breach. In reality, the dataset was a compilation of publicly accessible stealer logs, mostly repurposed from older leaks, with only a small portion of genuinely new material. HIBP received 2.7B rows containing 109M unique email addresses, which was subsequently added to the service under the name “Data Troll”. The websites the stealer logs were captured against are searchable via the HIBP dashboard.
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In December 2019, the now defunct gaming website Unigame (maker of Hunter Online) suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 844k email addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
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