Recent cyber attacks and data breaches

In September 2025, Prosper announced that it had detected unauthorised access to their systems, which resulted in the exposure of customer and applicant information . The data breach impacted 17.6M unique email addresses, along with other customer information, including US Social Security numbers. Prosper advised that they did not find any evidence of unauthorised access to customer accounts and funds, and that their customer-facing operations were uninterrupted. Further information about the incident is contained in Prosper's FAQs .

In July 2025, the sexual healthcare product maker Hello Cake suffered a data breach . The data was subsequently posted on a public hacking forum and included 23k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth and purchases.

In October 2025, data stolen from the Salesforce instances of multiple companies by a hacking group calling itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" was publicly released . Among the affected organisations was Vietnam Airlines, which had 7.3M unique customer email addresses exposed following a breach of its Salesforce environment in June of that year. The compromised data also included names, phone numbers, dates of birth, and loyalty program membership numbers.

In February 2025, data obtained from an earlier Adpost breach surfaced. The dataset contained 3.3M records including email addresses, usernames, and display names. Adpost later published a disclosure notice and advised they'd forced a credential refresh, among other actions.

In August 2025, the "marketplace that connects artists to prospective clients" Artists&Clients, suffered a data breach and subsequent ransom demand of US$50k . The data was subsequently leaked publicly and included 95k unique email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses and bcrypt password hashes.

In April 2020, now defunct Brazilian e-commerce platform HomeRefill suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data . The data included 187k unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, dates of birth and salted password hashes.

In August 2022, the Latest Pilot Jobs website suffered a data breach that later appeared on a popular hacking forum before being redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data . The data included 119k unique email addresses along with names, usernames and unsalted MD5 password hashes.

In September 2024, French retailer Cultura was the victim of a cyber attack they attributed to an external IT service provider . The resultant data breach included almost 1.5M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and orders. Cultura advised that all affected customers had been notified about the incident.

In August 2025, the French telecommunications company Bouygues Telecom detected a cyber attack against their services . The incident resulted in a data breach that exposed almost 6.4M customer records, including 5.7M unique email addresses. The breach also exposed names, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and IBANs (International Bank Account Numbers). Bouygues Telecom advised that all affected customers had been notified about the incident.

In October 2021, the now defunct Arabic language Anime website Animeify suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data . The data included 808k unique email addresses along with names, usernames, genders and plain text passwords.