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.

5,339
Disclosures in the tracker, all years
2,052
Of those, indexed in 2026
111
Added in October
18
Added in the last 7 days
7
Sectors covered

Source: LeakTrace disclosure tracker, 25 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
High1 Mar 2026
Companies House UK
Government · Records not stated
Data exposed during five-month security issue affecting UK firm records
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
UK Companies House
Government · Records not stated
Data exposed during five-month security issue affecting all UK firms' records
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Foster City
Government · Records not stated
Ransomware attack forced city computer system offline; state of emergency declared
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center
Education · Records not stated
Data leak following ransomware attack exposing Multiethnic Cohort Study data including driver's license and voter IDs
1 Mar 2026
Critical1 Mar 2026
PIH Health
Healthcare · 2,950,000 records
Healthcare provider notified 2.95 million patients of 2024 hacking incident/ransomware
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Organisation not named
Education · Records not stated
The disclosure as indexed does not name the organisation.
Ransomware attack led to data leak including driver's license numbers and voter information
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
CISA (U.S. Department)
Government · Records not stated
US agency breached through Cisco vulnerability with FIRESTARTER backdoor malware
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Organisation not named
Education · Records not stated
The disclosure as indexed does not name the organisation.
Ransomware attack led to data leak including driver's license numbers and voter info
1 Mar 2026
Critical1 Mar 2026
Qantas
Sector not stated · 5,670,000 records
5.67 million customer records exposed via vishing attack tech support scam
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
South Florida Injury Centers
Healthcare · 1,525 records
1,525 records breached exposing SSNs and medical records
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Ernst & Young (EY)
Finance · Records not stated
Third-party vendor breach exposed tax client data after 81-day notification delay
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Tribeca Festival
Sector not stated · 666,000 records
666,000 records exposed including celebrity contact information from unprotected database
1 Mar 2026
Critical1 Mar 2026
Charter Spectrum
Technology · 42,000,000 records
4.9M confirmed accounts breached; 42M records claimed stolen
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA
Finance · Records not stated
Italian regulator fined $36 million for serious data protection and personal data security shortcomings
1 Mar 2026
Critical1 Mar 2026
UK Biobank
Healthcare · Records not stated
Confidential health records from medical research project exposed online, data offered for sale
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
FirstClass
Sector not stated · Records not stated
Australian travel agency hit by alleged data breach with customer records compromised
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Huntsville Hospital Health System
Healthcare · Records not stated
Third-party data breach exposed patient information
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
CommonSpirit Health
Healthcare · 19,027 records
Data breach exposing personal and medical information of 19,027 patient records via healthcare consulting company
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Companies House
Government · Records not stated
UK firm records exposed during five-month security issue affecting all registered companies
1 Mar 2026
Critical1 Mar 2026
LexisNexis
Legal · 400,000 records
Cloud systems breach exposed records of 400K users including federal judges and .gov accounts
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Ransomware attack
Education · Records not stated
Ransomware attack exposed data from Multiethnic Cohort Study including driver's license numbers and voter IDs
1 Mar 2026
High1 Mar 2026
Companies House (UK)
Government · Records not stated
Data exposed during five-month security issue affecting UK firm records
1 Mar 2026
Critical1 Mar 2026
UK BioBank
Healthcare · Records not stated
Confidential health records from flagship medical research project exposed online, leaked dozens of times
1 Mar 2026
Critical26 Feb 2026
Odido
Finance · 6,077,025 records
6,077,025 records exposed, Bank account numbers, Customer service records, Dates of birth, Driver's licenses and 7 more
26 Feb 2026
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