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Aug 14, 02:59 AM
Data Breaches Expose 134M from National Public Data, 1.26M from LDLC, 27,096 from Chris Leong, and 1.4B from Tencent
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Data Breaches Expose 134M from National Public Data, 1.26M from LDLC, 27,096 from Chris Leong, and 1.4B from Tencent

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  • Mashable
  • CNET News
  • Ansem 🐂🀄️
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A series of significant data breaches have emerged, impacting millions of users globally. The National Public Data breach is reported to have compromised approximately 134 million accounts, with 87% of the exposed email addresses already listed on the data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned. Additionally, French retailer LDLC experienced a breach affecting 1.26 million unique email addresses, with data including names, phone numbers, and physical addresses; 63% of these were also previously recorded on Have I Been Pwned. Another breach involved Malaysian practitioner Chris Leong, resulting in the exposure of 27,096 email addresses and sensitive personal information. Furthermore, American hackers claimed to have obtained over 1.4 billion user data records from Tencent, marking it as potentially the largest data leak from a major Chinese internet company in history. The total number of compromised accounts from these incidents continues to rise, with the LuLu database leak adding 2.6 million more addresses, bringing the total to nearly 2.8 million compromised accounts. As concerns grow over the security of personal information, users are advised to take precautionary measures.

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