Tasmanian Government (agencies including the Department for Education, Children and Young People and TasTAFE)
January 1, 2023
•[ hack, government, education ]
hacked third party service
AfD
September 9, 2026
•[ hack, leak, government ]
In September 2026, the German political party Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) suffered a data breach which exposed 345k unique email addresses. The following month, hundreds of gigabytes of data containing hundreds of thousands of emails and attachments was published online, with searchable AI-generated summaries and downloadable original files. An analysis of the incident reported that the breach was detected as early as 9 September, with a subsequent intrusion occurring five days later. In its public statement, AfD attributed the breach to an attack on a hosting provider, identified in subsequent reporting as the party-owned Alternita Dienstleistungs GmbH.
Crunchbase
January 22, 2026
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In January 2026, the private company intelligence platform Crunchbase was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. Data allegedly obtained from the company was subsequently published publicly and included 560k unique email addresses, largely belonging to leads and business contacts. Other data included names, physical addresses, phone numbers, job titles, employers and LinkedIn profiles. Crunchbase later confirmed that a threat actor had exfiltrated documents from its corporate network.
Burger King Russia
August 25, 2024
•[ leak, hack, retail ]
In October 2024, news of a data breach exposing Burger King Russia customers broke following an August attack on the Mindbox marketing automation platform. The breach exposed 3.2M unique email addresses along with names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and approximate geolocations, with the data spanning 2018 to August 2024. Burger King Russia acknowledged the incident and advised it did not include payment or passport details.
Manchester Airports Group
August 27, 2026
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach impacting their services. The incident was later claimed by the FulcrumSec hacking group, who subsequently published email addresses and phone numbers relating to 8.8M customers of Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports. The data contained personal information relating to airport services, including vehicle registrations and parking history, Fast Track purchases and lounge bookings. In their disclosure notice, MAG advised that "at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised".
Manchester Airports Group
August 27, 2026
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach impacting their services. The incident was later claimed by the FulcrumSec hacking group, who subsequently published email addresses and phone numbers relating to 8.7M customers of Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports. The data contained personal information relating to airport services, including vehicle registrations and parking history, Fast Track purchases and lounge bookings. In their disclosure notice, MAG advised that "at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised".
Fanlore
August 6, 2026
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates. The breach resulted in the exposure of 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes. OTW self-submitted the exposed data to HIBP.
Operation Endgame 4.0
June 18, 2026
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
On 18 June 2026, the latest phase of Operation Endgame targeted the SocGholish malware operation, a prolific malware distribution network used to compromise systems and facilitate further cybercrime. Coordinated by international law enforcement agencies with support from Europol and Eurojust, the operation remediated almost 15,000 compromised websites and disrupted more than 100 servers and domains used to distribute malware. Authorities initially provided HIBP with 154k impacted email addresses and more than half a million previously unseen passwords. The following week, a further 4M email addresses and 9M passwords relating to the StealC malware operation also targeted by Operation Endgame were provided, followed by another 131k email addresses the following month, bringing the total to more than 4.3M unique email addresses.
Suno
November 25, 2025
•[ hack, technology, finance ]
In November 2025, AI music generation tool Suno suffered a data breach that later came to light in July the following year. The data contained over 55M unique email addresses. Phone numbers were also present where they had been used as the sign-up method. Although representing a small portion of the corpus, the breach also included tens of thousands of Stripe records relating to purchases, containing names, physical addresses, purchase amounts and partial credit card data including the card type, expiry date and last 4 digits. The company advised that "Suno does not have access to customers' full credit card numbers in Stripe".
Paidwork
March 29, 2026
•[ hack, leak, technology ]
In March 2026, hackers claimed they had obtained data from the gig economy platform Paidwork which they then listed for sale. Almost 11GB of data allegedly obtained from the platform was subsequently posted publicly in July and contained over 23M unique email addresses. The breach also included a broad range of other data relating to the operation of the platform including user profile data, banking information, payout history for workers and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
Operation Endgame 4.0
June 18, 2026
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
On 18 June 2026, the latest phase of Operation Endgame targeted the SocGholish malware operation, a prolific malware distribution network used to compromise systems and facilitate further cybercrime. Coordinated by international law enforcement agencies with support from Europol and Eurojust, the operation remediated almost 15,000 compromised websites and disrupted more than 100 servers and domains used to distribute malware. Authorities initially provided HIBP with 154k impacted email addresses and more than half a million previously unseen passwords recovered during the operation. The following week, a further 4M email addresses and 9M passwords relating to the StealC malware operation targeted by Operation Endgame were provided to HIBP, bringing the total to almost 4.2M unique email addresses.
Operation Endgame 4.0
June 18, 2026
•[ malware, hack, technology ]
On 18 June 2026, the latest phase of Operation Endgame targeted the SocGholish malware operation, a prolific malware distribution network used to compromise systems and facilitate further cybercrime. Coordinated by international law enforcement agencies with support from Europol and Eurojust, the operation remediated almost 15,000 compromised websites and disrupted more than 100 servers and domains used to distribute malware. Authorities also provided HIBP with 154k impacted email addresses and more than half a million previously unseen passwords.
