Bell (2017 breach)
May 15, 2017
•[ leak, insider, telecommunications ]
In May 2017, the Bell telecommunications company in Canada suffered a data breach resulting in the exposure of millions of customer records. The data was consequently leaked online with a message from the attacker stating that they were "releasing a significant portion of Bell.ca's data due to the fact that they have failed to cooperate with us" and included a threat to leak more. The impacted data included over 2 million unique email addresses and 153k survey results dating back to 2011 and 2012. There were also 162 Bell employee records with more comprehensive personal data including names, phone numbers and plain text "passcodes". Bell suffered another breach in 2014 which exposed 40k records.
BitView
December 14, 2024
•[ insider, misconfiguration, technology ]
In December 2024, the video sharing Community BitView suffered a data breach that exposed 63k customer records. Attributed to a backup taken by a previous administrator earlier in the year, the breach exposed email and IP addresses, bcrypt password hashes, usernames, bios, private messages, video comments and for some records, gender, date of birth and country of location.
Pump.fun
May 16, 2024
•[ insider, financial, finance ]
Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun says that a former employee was behind an exploit that resulted in the misappropriation of approximately 12,300 SOL, valued at about $1.9 million.
MinnesotaWorks
September 6, 2023
•[ insider, government ]
{"text":"The Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) in Minnesota notifies jobseekers of a data breach involving unauthorized access to their personal information at the MinnesotaWorks.net platform, after a person claiming to be an employee allegedly, viewed and copied user resume information without authorization.","hyperlink":"http://minnesotaworks.net/"}
Orqa
April 29, 2023
•[ insider, malware, manufacturing ]
Orqa, a maker of First Person View (FPV) drone racing goggles, claims that a contractor introduced code into its devices' firmware that acted as a time bomb designed to brick them.
FTX
November 11, 2022
•[ hack, insider, finance ]
FTX, the massive crypto exchange that went bankrupt, suffers a hack exceeding $400 million, probably the work of an insider.
Yandex Food
April 1, 2022
•[ hack, leak, insider ]
Yandex blames one of its employees for the hacking and subsequent leak of data from Yandex Food, a popular food delivery service in Russia.
