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Ransomnews

Outlet credited with the technical analysis of the archive, including schema enumeration, UUID timestamp validation, batching and duplication findings.

Known aliases

  • Ransomnew

Current stories

securityConfirmed5 publishers

Stolen logins, not a SaaS breach: nine enterprises' Entra directories are now for sale

A seller using the name TheHatman is offering employee directory exports from nine named enterprises. Hudson Rock ties the theft to infostealer credentials, not a compromise of the provider.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 61%
Investor
Investor 14%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives50
Confidence60
securityOne report1 publisher

Researcher matches 205 early Exploit.in handles to later criminal forums

Researcher Dancho Danchev matched 205 handles from a 2005-2008 Exploit.in dump to private messages on five later forums, 26 of them from active early members. A matching handle does not prove a matching person, so 205 is a ceiling, but the forum's core was only about 90 accounts, few enough to follow from board to board.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence40
securityOne report1 publisher

A 412,192-row festival ticketing file prices Brazilian CPF numbers at four cents a head

Ransomnews validated the sample as real The Town 2025 buyer data, down to the 487.50-real student ticket, but every row carries a single export timestamp that points away from Ticketmaster and at an unnamed partner.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption22
Hype gap−12
Incentives70
Confidence52
securityOne report1 publisher

Orphan-free quote references place the Love Electric sample inside a production database

A forum seller wants $600 for what they say are 877,000 EV salary sacrifice driver records, and the 999-row sample published as proof holds up under structural testing in ways a fabricated file usually does not.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption22
Hype gap+20
Incentives62
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Chess.com's 7.3 Million-Record Leak Looks Scraped, And It Dragged Ad Segments Along

A free 15.5 GB dump holds no passwords and no payment data, but every row carries Google Ad Manager cohort labels that chess.com's public API does not expose.

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption46
Hype gap+12
Incentives62
Confidence52