data breach
Coinbase confirms insider breach linked to leaked support tool screenshots
Coinbase has confirmed an insider breach after a contractor improperly accessed the data of approximately thirty customers, which GeekFeed has learned is a new incident that occurred in December. “Last year our security team detected that a single Coinbase contractor improperly accessed customer information, impacting a very small number of users (approximately 30),” a Coinbase spokesperson […]
Iron Mountain: Data breach mostly limited to marketing materials
Iron Mountain, a leading data storage and recovery services company, says that a recent breach claimed by the Everest extortion gang is limited to mostly marketing materials. Headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and founded in 1951, Iron Mountain specializes in data centers and records management, and has over 240,000 customers worldwide from more than 61 […]
Panera Bread breach impacts 5.1 million accounts, not 14 million customers
The data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned says that a data breach at the U.S. food chain Panera Bread affected 5.1 million accounts, not 14 million customers as previously reported. Founded in 1987, the company operates nearly 2,300 bakery-cafes across 48 U.S. states and in Ontario, Canada, under the names Panera Bread or […]
NationStates confirms data breach, shuts down game site
NationStates, a multiplayer browser-based game, has confirmed a data breach after taking its website offline earlier this week to investigate a security incident. The government simulation game, developed by author Max Barry and loosely based on his novel Jennifer Government, disclosed that an unauthorized user gained access to its production server and copied user data. […]
Match Group breach exposes data from Hinge, Tinder, OkCupid, and Match
Match Group, the owner of multiple popular online dating services, Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, and Hinge, confirmed a cybersecurity incident that compromised user data. The company stated that hackers stole a “limited amount of user data” after the ShinyHunters threat group leaked 1.7 GB of compressed files allegedly containing 10 million records of Hinge, Match, […]
Marquis blames ransomware breach on SonicWall cloud backup hack
Marquis Software Solutions, a Texas-based financial services provider, is blaming a ransomware attack that impacted its systems and affected dozens of U.S. banks and credit unions in August 2025 on a security breach reported by SonicWall a month later. The software company provides data analytics, compliance reporting, CRM tools, and digital marketing services to more […]
France fines unemployment agency €5 million over data breach
The French data protection authority fined the national employment agency €5 million (nearly €6 million) for failing to secure job seekers’ data, which allowed hackers to steal the personal information of 43 million people. France Travail (formerly known as Pôle Emploi) is the country’s public employment service, providing unemployment benefits and helping job seekers find […]
Nike investigates data breach after extortion gang leaks files
Nike is investigating what it described as a “potential cyber security incident” after the World Leaks ransomware gang leaked 1.4 TB of files allegedly stolen from the sportswear giant. “We always take consumer privacy and data security very seriously,” the company told GeekFeed in an email statement. “We are investigating a potential cyber security incident […]
Have I Been Pwned: SoundCloud data breach impacts 29.8 million accounts
Hackers have stolen the personal and contact information belonging to over 29.8 million SoundCloud user accounts after breaching the audio streaming platform’s systems. SoundCloud was founded in 2007 as an artist-first platform that now provides access to over 400 million tracks from more than 40 million artists worldwide. The company confirmed the breach on December 15, following widespread reports from users […]
Online retailer PcComponentes says data breach claims are fake
PcComponentes, a major technology retailer in Spain, has denied claims of a data breach on its systems impacting 16 million customers, but confirmed it suffered a credential stuffing attack. The Spanish e-commerce company specializes in the sale of computers, laptops, peripherals, and hardware, and has an estimated 75 million unique marketplace visitors per year. Yesterday, a […]