Data-Breach

Whistleblower Reveals Unprecedented Social Security Database Security Breach

| Importance: 10/10

Chief Data Officer Charles Borges exposed a critical national security vulnerability involving an unauthorized copy of the entire NUMIDENT Social Security database. Senior DOGE-affiliated officials uploaded a live copy of sensitive personal information for over 450 million Americans to an unsecured …

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Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite

| Importance: 8/10

An anonymous whistleblower provides 1.7 terabytes of stolen Cellebrite data to hacktivist collective Enlace Hacktivista, representing one of the largest breaches in the surveillance technology industry. The massive leak includes the entire Cellebrite suite of programs, including the company’s …

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Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database

| Importance: 8/10

Oracle’s BlueKai Data Management Platform exposed billions of records containing sensitive web tracking data through an unsecured cloud server discovered on June 19, 2020, in one of the largest data breaches of the year. The database, left accessible to the public internet without password …

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Cambridge Analytica Scandal Exposed by Whistleblower Christopher Wylie

| Importance: 10/10

Christopher Wylie reveals Cambridge Analytica harvested 87 million Facebook profiles without consent for political manipulation, triggering global privacy crisis

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Equifax Data Breach Exposes 147 Million Americans Due to Unpatched Apache Struts Vulnerability

| Importance: 10/10

Hackers begin systematically exfiltrating personal data of 147.9 million Americans from Equifax systems through an unpatched Apache Struts vulnerability (CVE-2017-5638). The breach, which Equifax would not disclose until September 7, 2017, represents one of the largest cybercrimes related to …

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