Breach Intelligence

In August 2024, a data breach from the online styling service Lookiero was posted to a popular hacking forum. Dating back to March 2024, the data included 5M unique email addresses, with many of the records also including name, phone number and physical address. When contacted about the incident, Lookiero advised that they would "look into it and get back to you if necessary"

In November 2023, a post to a popular hacking forum alleged that millions of LinkedIn records had been scraped and leaked. On investigation, the data turned out to be a combination of legitimate data scraped from LinkedIn and email addresses constructed from impacted individuals' names.

On August 22, 2024, the website agrariandept.gov.lk, belonging to the Department of Agrarian Development in Sri Lanka, was breached. This government department is responsible for implementing policies, managing resources, and providing services that support the agricultural community, particularly in rural areas. Reports suggest that the breach exposed approximately 1,450,000 farmers and associated information. Among the compromised data were NIC numbers, names, phone numbers, geographic locations, site activity, and IP addresses.

In May 2016, the online gaming site Army Force Online suffered a data breach that exposed 1.5M accounts. The breached data was found being regularly traded online and included usernames, email and IP addresses and MD5 passwords.

A data breach at the professional broker with an impeccable reputation, distinguished by a technologically innovative approach to work on Forex website STForex.ru in late 2022 resulted in the exposure of 1,316,448 client records, including Partners records (35,271).