Weekly briefing No. 41 published 4 Oct 2026
Intelligence · Disclosure tracker

Every public disclosure, dated and sourced.

Public breach disclosures from regulators, court filings, company notices and news reporting, each recorded with its date and a link to the original. Updated daily.

5,336
Disclosures in the tracker, all years
2,049
Of those, indexed in 2026
104
Added in October
24
Added in the last 7 days
7
Sectors covered

Source: LeakTrace disclosure tracker, 24 Oct 2026. Counts of records in the index, not estimates. Software advisories and security news are not counted.

Worldwide · How they got in

Incidents worldwide, by country.

74 incidents from 11 countries in the last 90 days, each from a public source and reviewed before it is shown. Where the source says how the attackers got in, the row says so.

  1. Germany21 Oct 2026IQ.LvbsThe source does not say how they got in.The Register
Critical1 May 2026
Canvas
Education · 275,000,000 records
ShinyHunters breach exposed data for 275 million users; company struck deal to delete data
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Organisation not named
Education · Records not stated
The disclosure as indexed does not name the organisation.
Tens of thousands of Queensland students and teachers affected in major education technology data breach
1 May 2026
Critical1 May 2026
Canvas/Instructure
Education · 275,000,000 records
ShinyHunters claimed breach exposing data of 275 million users from educational platform
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
UC Berkeley Canvas
Education · 600,000 records
ShinyHunters stole approximately 600,000 records from Canvas learning platform used by 43,000 students
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Queensland Education Technology
Education · Records not stated
Major cyber breach affecting tens of thousands of Queensland students and teachers in education technology sector
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Australian Schools (Queensland)
Education · Records not stated
Education technology data breach affecting tens of thousands of students and teachers
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
EY
Finance · Records not stated
Third-party vendor breach exposed tax client data; 81-day notification delay
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Tribeca Festival
Sector not stated · Records not stated
Data leak exposed hundreds of thousands of records including celebrity contact information
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Organisation not named
Government · Records not stated
The disclosure as indexed does not name the organisation.
Exposed GitHub repository with internal credentials and files
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Organisation not named
Education · Records not stated
The disclosure as indexed does not name the organisation.
Tens of thousands of Queensland students and teachers affected in significant global education technology breach
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Tens of thousands of students and teachers' data
Education · Records not stated
Tens of thousands of students and teachers' data exposed in significant global education technology breach
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
UC Berkeley
Education · 600,000 records
ShinyHunters stole 600K records from Canvas learning management platform
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Atrium Health Navicent
Healthcare · Records not stated
Patient records system breach exposing patient records and personal information
1 May 2026
Critical1 May 2026
NYC Health + Hospitals
Healthcare · 1,800,000 records
Hackers stole medical data, fingerprints, and biometric scans affecting 1.8 million people
1 May 2026
Critical1 May 2026
Foxconn
Technology · Records not stated
Ransomware group claimed to have stolen 8 terabytes of data from electronics manufacturing giant
1 May 2026
Critical1 May 2026
Canvas (Instructure)
Education · 275,000,000 records
Educational platform breached by ShinyHunters, 275 million records compromised, hackers threatened to leak data
1 May 2026
High1 May 2026
Instructure (Canvas)
Education · Records not stated
Ransomware attack, owner reached agreement with threat actors after data breach
1 May 2026
Critical1 May 2026
African National Congress (ANC)
Government · Records not stated
2 million private member records exposed and offered for sale by hacker group
1 May 2026
Medium1 May 2026
Aman
Retail · 215,563 records
215,563 records exposed, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Language preferences and 6 more
1 May 2026
High27 Apr 2026
Pitney Bowes
Technology · 8,243,989 records
8,243,989 records exposed, Email addresses, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers and 1 more
27 Apr 2026
High27 Apr 2026
ADT
Government · 30,000 records
5,488,888 records exposed, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Names, Partial government issued IDs and 2 more
27 Apr 2026
High26 Apr 2026
Udemy
Finance · 1,401,259 records
1,401,259 records exposed, Email addresses, Employers, Job titles, Names and 3 more
26 Apr 2026
High24 Apr 2026
Carnival
Technology · 7,531,359 records
7,531,359 records exposed, Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations and 3 more
24 Apr 2026
High17 Apr 2026
Amtrak
Retail · 2,147,679 records
2,147,679 records exposed, Email addresses, Names, Physical addresses, Support tickets
17 Apr 2026
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