Editorial standards & verification
Recent Breaches is a real-time threat-intelligence news desk. We track data breaches, leaks, and extortion campaigns as they surface — often hours or days before they reach mainstream coverage — and we label every item with how well it is verified so readers can weigh it accurately. This page explains where our information comes from, how we verify and label it, and how we correct the record when we get something wrong.
How we source
Our coverage is assembled continuously from a mix of primary and secondary sources:
- Ransomware and extortion leak sites — the dark-web listings and extortion postings where groups name their victims. We monitor these continuously.
- Verified breach-notification feeds — corroborated consumer breaches we ingest from established breach-notification feeds.
- Official disclosures — company breach notifications, regulator filings, and CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Credible public reporting — established security journalism and vendor research.
Our verification tiers
Every breach carries a status label near its headline. The tiers, from claim to confirmed:
A ransomware or extortion group has listed an organization on its leak site, or a claim is circulating that we have not yet corroborated. A listing is an allegation made by criminals to pressure a victim — it is not proof a breach occurred, and details (record counts, data types) are often exaggerated. We publish these because they are real-time signals of risk, clearly labelled as unverified until confirmed.
The incident is supported by public reporting — a credible news outlet, a regulator filing, a security-vendor writeup, or the organization’s own notification wording — but has not been independently confirmed by us end to end. Facts are attributed to their source.
The breach is corroborated by an official disclosure from the affected organization or ingested from a verified breach-notification feed. These are the incidents we hold to the highest evidentiary bar.
Ransomware listings are claims, not verdicts
When a group posts a victim to its leak site, that is an unverified extortion claim until it is corroborated. Criminals inflate figures, re-list old victims, and sometimes name organizations they never breached. We report the listing as what it is — an allegation — and we say so plainly. We add context, and we update the page if the organization or credible reporting confirms or refutes it.
Recycled and re-posted data
A large share of “new” leaks are repackaged old ones — combolists and infostealer dumps stitched together from prior breaches. Where we can tell that a dataset is recycled or re-posted, we say so, and we favor the original incident over the repackaging so readers aren’t double-counting the same exposure.
Corrections & retractions
We correct errors promptly and transparently. If reporting turns out to be wrong, we fix it and, for material changes, note what changed. If a claim we reported is credibly refuted, we retract it rather than quietly deleting it. To request a correction, email press@recentbreaches.com.
Right of reply & takedowns
Any organization named on this site has a standing right of reply. We will add your statement, correct inaccuracies, and — where a page contains personal data or a claim we cannot substantiate — remove or de-index it on request. Send takedown and right-of-reply requests to press@recentbreaches.com; see our contact page for the full set of intents.
Ownership & independence
Recent Breaches is published by GalaxyWarden, a consumer data-removal service. We disclose that relationship on every page. Editorial decisions — what we cover and how we label it — are made independently of our commercial interests.
How we differ from breach-lookup registries
Breach-lookup registries do essential work: they catalog strictly-verified consumer breaches so people can check their exposure with confidence. Recent Breaches plays a complementary role. We are a real-time threat-intelligence news desk: we surface ransomware listings, fresh leaks, and emerging incidents the moment they appear — including unverified claims — and we label each by verification status. A registry answers “is this confirmed breach in my data?”; we answer “what is happening right now, and how sure are we?” Both are valuable.
Attributions to threat groups and methods reflect public reporting and, in some cases, unverified claims made by the groups themselves; they may be incomplete or later revised. Recent Breaches and GalaxyWarden are independent and are not affiliated with, and do not endorse, any company or group named on this page. This information is aggregated from public sources for awareness only and is not legal, security, or investment advice.