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2024

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Leak at Picard

45,000 people last name, first name date of birth email address postal address phone number loyalty card number loyalty points discount vouchers order history receipts shopping list favourite purchases

Victim
Picard
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Leak at Free

5.1 million people last name, first name date of birth place of birth email address postal address IBAN subscriber identifier subscribed plan type subscription date active subscription or not

Victim
Free
EspionageContained

Salt Typhoon US telecom espionage campaign (2024)

China-linked Salt Typhoon infiltrated at least nine U.S. telecom providers โ€” Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Lumen, Consolidated, Windstream โ€” including the CALEA lawful-intercept systems used for court-authorised wiretaps. Metadata for over a million users was exposed; the U.S. Treasury sanctioned a linked PRC contractor.

Victim
U.S. telecommunications providers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Lumen, Consolidated Communications, Windstream)
RansomwareContained

Indonesia PDNS Brain Cipher (LockBit 3.0) ransomware (2024)

Brain Cipher โ€” a Lockbit 3.0โ€“derived ransomware โ€” encrypted Indonesia's Temporary National Data Center (PDNS), paralysing 282 government digital services from immigration to passport issuance for weeks. Attackers demanded $8M; the government refused. Brain Cipher subsequently released a decryptor free of charge, with an apology.

Victim
Pusat Data Nasional Sementara (PDNS), Indonesia
Credential stuffingContained

Snowflake customer-account credential-stuffing campaign (UNC5537, 2024)

A threat cluster tracked as UNC5537 / ShinyHunters used credentials harvested by infostealer malware to log into ~160 Snowflake customer tenants that lacked MFA. Victims included AT&T, Ticketmaster, Santander, LendingTree, Advance Auto Parts, Neiman Marcus, and Bausch Health. Ticketmaster alone exposed data for ~560 million users.

Victim
Snowflake customer tenants (~160 organisations: AT&T, Ticketmaster, Santander, LendingTree, Advance Auto Parts, Neiman Marcus, Bausch Health, et al.)
Records
560.0M
RansomwareContained

Schneider Electric Sustainability Business Cactus ransomware (2024)

Cactus ransomware operators hit Schneider Electric's Sustainability Business division, taking the Resource Advisor consulting platform offline and exfiltrating approximately 1.5 TB of data โ€” including passport scans and signed NDAs from customers like Hilton, PepsiCo, and Walmart.

Victim
Schneider Electric โ€” Sustainability Business division