Sep 9, 2026
345,439 accounts
In September 2026, the German political party
Alternative für 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.
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Sep 1, 2024
70,372 accounts
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May 16, 2026
117,574 accounts
In May 2026, the French holiday rental network
Gîtes de France suffered a data breach affecting some of its departmental branches. The incident exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records, including 118k unique email addresses alongside names, phone numbers, postal addresses and booking details.
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Jan 22, 2026
559,908 accounts
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.
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Aug 12, 2026
318,185 accounts
In August 2026, the digital health company
Sharecare was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data it claimed was taken from Sharecare's systems, containing 318k unique email addresses. Most of the data consisted of B2B sales and marketing records with names, physical addresses, phone numbers, job titles and employers. The data also included a small number of Brazilian health insurance plan members, including dates of birth, genders, marital statuses and CPF numbers (Brazilian taxpayer identification numbers).
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Aug 29, 2026
435,963 accounts
In August 2026, the food and animal safety organisation
Neogen was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group later published data it claimed had been obtained from Neogen. The data consisted largely of corporate contact records and included 436k unique email addresses from mailing lists, employee records and other contacts.
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Aug 5, 2026
373,460 accounts
In August 2026,
data centre operator CyrusOne was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company, which included 373k unique email addresses across records relating to users, sales leads and CyrusOne employees. The data largely consisted of corporate contact information, including names, physical addresses, phone numbers and job titles. It also included support tickets and other information related to the organisation's operations.
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Oct 4, 2026
274,922 accounts
In October 2026, the Discord server protection service
Double Counter suffered a data breach attributed to a vulnerability in the Metabase analytics tool. In its disclosure notice, Double Counter advised that attackers gained access to a subset of its data. A corpus of data was subsequently published publicly and contained 275k unique email addresses and Discord usernames. A small number of records belonging to paying subscribers whose purchases were processed via Stripe were also present and included names, countries and postcodes.
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Apr 1, 2023
6,765,054 accounts
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Sep 7, 2026
423,947 accounts
In September 2026, Swiss medical device company
Medela was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The data allegedly obtained in the breach was later published publicly and included 424k unique email addresses belonging predominantly to healthcare professionals, Medela staff and leads. The exposed data consisted primarily of corporate contact information, including names, physical addresses and phone numbers, with some records also containing associated support tickets.
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Aug 1, 2019
17,838,396 accounts
In 2019, the now-defunct B2B marketing leads database service
LimeLeads suffered a data breach due to an exposed, unsecured Elasticsearch server. The incident exposed tens of millions of records of largely corporate contact data containing 17.8M unique email addresses, along with phone numbers, employers, job titles and geographic locations including state, city and postcode.
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Aug 25, 2024
3,155,792 accounts
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.
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Aug 3, 2026
4,653,212 accounts
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Aug 21, 2026
6,404,340 accounts
In August 2026,
healthcare and pharmaceutical company McKesson was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published a substantial corpus of data they alleged was sourced from the company, which included 6.4M unique email addresses among other personal and corporate data attributes. The impacted data related to a range of individuals and roles, including marketing campaign recipients, patients, staff and healthcare provider contacts. In
McKesson's disclosure notice, the company advised it had identified unauthorised access to "certain third-party applications and the exfiltration of certain data was associated with a subset of customers within our Oncology & Multispecialty and Medical-Surgical business units", but had "reasonable assurance of no ongoing unauthorized activity".
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Aug 27, 2026
8,849,657 accounts
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Aug 1, 2026
1,226,209 accounts
In August 2026, the French intellectual property software and services company
Questel was the target of a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published an extensive corpus of data they alleged was obtained from the company, largely comprising corporate contact information associated with sales leads, support cases and marketing activities, with 1.2M unique email addresses. The data also included names, employers and job titles, along with physical addresses and phone numbers.
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Aug 13, 2026
12,933,413 accounts
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Jul 13, 2025
6,090 accounts
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May 14, 2026
568,972 accounts
In mid-2026, hundreds of thousands of user records allegedly sourced from Golf Canada began circulating via Telegram. The data included 569k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, dates of birth, genders and approximate geographic locations (city, province and postcode). It remains unclear whether the data was obtained via unintentionally exposed website features or a security vulnerability.
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Aug 15, 2026
1,988,331 accounts
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Aug 6, 2026
144,520 accounts
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.
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Jul 27, 2026
1,596,490 accounts
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Aug 1, 2026
218,395 accounts
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Jul 13, 2026
732,162 accounts
In July 2026,
Brinks Home was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data they alleged was taken from the company, including 732k unique email addresses and other personal information relating to leads, customers and Brinks staff such as name, phone numbers and physical addresses. The data also included purchases from Brinks along with partial credit card data (last 4 digits, card type and expiry).
In Brinks' disclosure notice, they acknowledged the incident and risk of disclosure, and advised that they would notify impacted parties "consistent with applicable law".
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