Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak


Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.

Data breach tracker Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) confirmed the breach on April 27, with 8.2 million unique email addresses included in the dump alongside names, phone numbers, and physical addresses. A smaller subset of the entire data trove pertained to company employment records, which included job titles.

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Source: The Register News


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