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Government Data Breaches

Federal agencies, state governments, municipalities, and public-sector contractors have become priority targets for nation-state actors and ransomware groups. Below is every government-sector breach LeakTrace has indexed.

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Government Data Breaches (656 indexed)

critical · government · Nov 5, 2020

James

1,541,284 records exposed — Email addresses, Geographic locations, Latitude and longitude pairs, Passwords

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 5 years, 8 months ago