We’re tracking data breaches that are most likely caused by leaked secrets and keeping this page up-to-date.
2021 Facebook leak
In 2021, an internal document leak from the company then known as Facebook (now Meta Platforms, or Meta) showed it was aware of harmful societal effects from its platforms, yet persisted in prioritizing profit over addressing these harms. The leak, released by whistleblower Frances Haugen, resulted in reporting from The Wall Street Journal in September, as The Facebook Files series, as well as the Facebook Papers, by a consortium of news outlets the next months.
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
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Hackers uncover the most alarming frontend leak in Discord’s age verification data
Exposed age verification code tied to Discord's identity vendor has intensified debate over facial scans, ID uploads, and user trust.
IDMerit data breach: 1 billion records of personal data exposed in KYC data leak
A massive global data leak linked to IDMerit has exposed 1 billion personal records, including national IDs and emails, across the US, Europe, and Asia.
The Breach (@breachmedia.ca)
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Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed
The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the files.
Top AI Security Incidents of 2025 Revealed | Adversa AI
Discover how AI systems are being hacked in the wild — from prompt injection to agent abuse — with real breaches, lessons, and defenses in Adversa AI’s 2025 report.
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #63
The many interesting things I read in May 2026
Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report - Bluesky
Throughout 2025, our Trust & Safety work was guided by the premise that social media should serve the people using it. Our transparency report provides data and details about those investments, and the progress we made this year.
From Data Leak to Sandbox Escape: The Full Story of Claude Mythos
Originally published at https://blog.akshatuniyal.com. It started with a misconfigured database. On...
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #65
The many interesting things I read in July 2026
Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #60
The many interesting things I read in February 2026
Dark Web Informer on Twitter / X
‼️🇺🇸 LAPSUS$ Group is allegedly selling a massive dataset of https://t.co/Q6UlD72i8v, an AI recruiting platform with $500M+ revenue, is being auctioned on a popular cybercrime forum, TG, and their website.▪️Total Size: ~4TB▪️Data Includes: 211GB of database▪️939GB of source… pic.twitter.com/hEvp244uNO— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) March 30, 2026
553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your
Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next: Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should
Dark Code
A few months ago, a founder I know had a data leak that took his security team four days to understand.
