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#databreaches — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #databreaches, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The Register: Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak . “Data breach tracker Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) confirmed the breach on April 27, with 8.2 million unique email addresses included in the dump alongside names, phone numbers, and physical addresses. A smaller subset of the entire data trove pertained to company employment records, which included job titles.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/the-register-have-i-been-pwned-claims-pitney-bowes-hit-by-8-2m-email-address-leak/
  2. 📢⚠️ US-Estonian suspect Peter Stokes was arrested in #Finland over alleged ties to Scattered Spider, facing US charges for cyberattacks, fraud, and data breaches.

    Read: hackread.com/us-estonian-suspe

    #CyberSecurity #CyberCrime #ScatteredSpider #DataBreaches

  3. Bleeping Computer: Home security giant ADT data breach affects 5.5 million people. “The ShinyHunters extortion group stole the personal information of 5.5 million individuals after breaching the systems of home security giant ADT earlier this month, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/28/bleeping-computer-home-security-giant-adt-data-breach-affects-5-5-million-people/
  4. EU Age Verification App Hacked in Two Minutes Amid Multiple Security Breaches

    📰 Original title: It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/eu-age-verific

    #technology #databreaches #ageverification

  5. The Guardian: Meta employee in London accused of downloading 30,000 private Facebook images. “A former worker at Meta is under criminal investigation on suspicion of downloading about 30,000 private Facebook images. He was employed by the social media company when it is believed he designed a program to be able to access the pictures while avoiding internal security checks.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/the-guardian-meta-employee-in-london-accused-of-downloading-30000-private-facebook-images/
  6. So this is confusing.
    #BitWarden is telling me the #passphrase for one of my email #accounts (which includes capitalization, numbers, and symbols) is a #weak and #compromised #password and I need to change it "now".
    Except...
    My
    #email address does not appear in Have I Been Pwned?/ #HIBP, and the password itself does not appear in any #DataBreaches.
    So I'd really like to know WHY BitWarden is
    #warning me about this password, and more importantly... why?
    Note: I own the email infrastructure and am in control of it for the account and passphrase in question.

  7. So this is confusing.
    #BitWarden is telling me the #passphrase for one of my email #accounts (which includes capitalization, numbers, and symbols) is a #weak and #compromised #password and I need to change it "now".
    Except...
    My
    #email address does not appear in Have I Been Pwned?/ #HIBP, and the password itself does not appear in any #DataBreaches.
    So I'd really like to know WHY BitWarden is
    #warning me about this password, and more importantly... why?
    Note: I own the email infrastructure and am in control of it for the account and passphrase in question.

  8. So this is confusing.
    #BitWarden is telling me the #passphrase for one of my email #accounts (which includes capitalization, numbers, and symbols) is a #weak and #compromised #password and I need to change it "now".
    Except...
    My
    #email address does not appear in Have I Been Pwned?/ #HIBP, and the password itself does not appear in any #DataBreaches.
    So I'd really like to know WHY BitWarden is
    #warning me about this password, and more importantly... why?
    Note: I own the email infrastructure and am in control of it for the account and passphrase in question.

  9. So this is confusing.
    #BitWarden is telling me the #passphrase for one of my email #accounts (which includes capitalization, numbers, and symbols) is a #weak and #compromised #password and I need to change it "now".
    Except...
    My
    #email address does not appear in Have I Been Pwned?/ #HIBP, and the password itself does not appear in any #DataBreaches.
    So I'd really like to know WHY BitWarden is
    #warning me about this password, and more importantly... why?
    Note: I own the email infrastructure and am in control of it for the account and passphrase in question.

  10. Bleeping Computer: Crunchyroll probes breach after hacker claims to steal 6.8M users’ data. “Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/24/bleeping-computer-crunchyroll-probes-breach-after-hacker-claims-to-steal-6-8m-users-data/
  11. Lifehacker: This Massive Data Breach Leaked 2.7 Million Social Security Numbers. “Another massive data breach has compromised millions of Americans’ healthcare data and sensitive information. Navia Benefit Solutions, a benefits administrator for more than 10,000 U.S. employers, has disclosed a hack that affects nearly 2.7 million individuals, according to a March 18 filing with the Maine […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/23/lifehacker-this-massive-data-breach-leaked-2-7-million-social-security-numbers/
  12. Lifehacker: This Massive Healthcare Data Breach Is Even Bigger Than Previously Reported. “The data breach itself isn’t new—it was initially disclosed in January 2025, and Conduent has already notified millions of individuals whose data was compromised in the incident. However, the breach is now believed to be larger in scale than previously reported, possibly among the largest to affect […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/02/lifehacker-this-massive-healthcare-data-breach-is-even-bigger-than-previously-reported/
  13. 💾 The Worst #DataBreaches of 2025—And What You Can Do | EFFector 38.1

    So many data #breaches happen throughout the year that it can be pretty easy to gloss over not just if, but how many different breaches compromised your data. We're diving into these data breaches and more with our latest EFFector newsletter.
    #privacy #security #breach

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/wors