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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 (655 indexed)

medium · government · May 11, 2026

Korea’s child rights agency data

Jung Da-hyun reports: A recent data breach at the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), exposing sensitive personal records of adoptees, is drawing criticism from overseas adoptee groups and raising questio

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 month, 3 weeks ago
medium · government · May 4, 2026

AI speeds flaw discovery, forcing

The UK cyber agency NCSC warns AI is speeding up vulnerability discovery, likely causing a “patch wave” of urgent software updates to fix exposed flaws. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns that AI is rap

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 1 month, 4 weeks ago
medium · government · May 1, 2026

Unprecedented

Tyler Bridegan, Scott Hyman, Patrick Strubbe, and Sarah Wilk of Womble Bond Dickinson write: In a first of its kind, a California federal judge allowed claims against Bain Capital to proceed based on a data breach at its

medium · government · Apr 26, 2026

KR: Data of 100,000 leaked

Oh Seok-min reports: Personal information of around 100,000 customers has been leaked from a golf course, prompting a police investigation, sources said Sunday. The Korean National Police Agency is probing the case after

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 1 week ago
medium · government · Apr 23, 2026

UK’s NCSC calls passkeys the

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 1 week ago
medium · government · Apr 23, 2026

Claude Mythos signals a new

The Claude Mythos Preview appears to be living up to the hype, at least from a cybersecurity standpoint. The model, which Anthropic rolled out to a small group of users, including Firefox developer Mozilla, earlier this

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 1 week ago
critical · government · Apr 21, 2026

French govt agency

France Titres, the government agency in France for issuing and managince administrative documents has disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed the attack and stealing citizen data. [...]

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 1 week ago
medium · government · Apr 17, 2026

Oklahoma State Tax Commission Fails

DataBreaches missed this one, but The Daily Hodl didn’t. They reported on March 31: A US state tax agency has placed taxpayers’ personal info at risk by missing an extended data breach that lasted 18 months. The Ok

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 2 weeks ago
medium · government · Apr 16, 2026

Defendant Sentenced To Prison For

Not everyone complies with the conditions of pre-sentencing release. After pleading guilty to a credential stuffing attack, this defendant reopened his online criminal shop and advertised what he was doing. Unsurprisingl

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 2 weeks ago
critical · government · Apr 16, 2026

Double trouble

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry reports: Nine Mexican government agencies were hacked in an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyber campaign between December 2025 and mid-February 2026 in what researchers have said should &#8

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 2 weeks ago
medium · government · Apr 15, 2026

Sweden Blames Pro-Russian Group for

In what was Sweden’s first public mention of the attack, the country’s minister for civil defense said it targeted a heating plant in western Sweden. The post Sweden Blames Pro-Russian Group for Cyberattack Last Year on

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 months, 2 weeks ago