Incidents in country:
15 incidents catalogued
Nissan's Americas operations disclosed that attackers exploiting a zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft accessed sensitive data belonging to current and former employees in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
A cyberattack on Britain's biggest carmaker forced JLR to shut down its global IT network and halted vehicle production in the UK, China, Slovakia, India, and Brazil for five weeks — now considered the most economically damaging cyber incident in UK history.
A junior developer at C&M Software — a Central Bank-authorized provider of Pix instant-payment connectivity — was paid roughly R$5,000 to hand over credentials. Attackers used the access to drain approximately R$800 million ($148 million) from reserve accounts at six Brazilian financial institutions in 2.5 hours.
In December 2024, data alleged to have been taken from the Brazilian lead generation platform Speedio was posted for sale to a popular hacking forum. The data was allegedly obtained from an unsecured Elasticsearch instance and contained over 62M records of largely public business information…
In August 2021, an allegation was made that the Brazilian fast food company "Habib's" had suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data.
REvil affiliates encrypted the world's largest meat processor, shutting down beef and pork plants across the U.S., Canada, and Australia. JBS paid an $11 million ransom — one of the largest publicly-confirmed ransomware payments at the time.
In March 2021, the Brazilian EdTech company Descomplica suffered a data breach which was subsequently posted to a popular hacking forum. The data included almost 5 million email addresses, names, the first 6 and last 4 digits and the expiry date of credit cards, purchase histories and password…
The largest personal-data leak in Brazilian history: databases on roughly 223 million people — including names, CPF tax IDs, facial images, salaries and credit scores — surfaced for sale on a dark-web forum, with suspicion pointing at credit-bureau data.
The RansomExx gang encrypted more than 1,000 servers at Brazil's Superior Tribunal de Justiça, paralysing the country's second-highest court for over a week in the most severe cyberattack ever against a Brazilian public institution.
In June 2020, the Brazilian fund raising service Vakinha suffered a data breach which impacted almost 4.8 million members. The exposed data included email addresses, names, phone numbers, geographic locations and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes, all of which was subsequently shared extensively…
In April 2020, now defunct Brazilian e-commerce platform HomeRefill suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 187k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, dates of birth and salted password hashes.
In June 2020, 14 previously undisclosed data breaches appeared for sale including the Brazilian delivery service, "James". The breach occurred in March 2020 and exposed 1.5M unique email addresses, customer locations expressed in longitude and latitude and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
In approximately March 2020, the Brazilian recruitment website Catho was compromised and subsequently appeared alongside 20 other breached websites listed for sale on a dark web marketplace. The breach included almost 11 million records with 1.2 million unique email addresses.
In February 2019, the Brazilian book store Estante Virtual suffered a data breach that impacted 5.4M customers. The exposed data included names, usernames, email and physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and unsalted SHA-1 password hashes.
Brazilian e-commerce giant Netshoes exposed the personal data — names, CPF tax IDs, emails and purchase histories — of about 2 million customers, drawing one of the first major enforcement actions by Brazilian prosecutors over a data breach.