{"id":238786,"date":"2026-06-12T03:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/maine-breach-portal-abused-to-publish-fake-data-breach-disclosures"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:17:54","slug":"maine-breach-portal-abused-to-publish-fake-data-breach-disclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/maine-breach-portal-abused-to-publish-fake-data-breach-disclosures","title":{"rendered":"Maine breach portal abused to publish fake data breach disclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maine-breach-portal-abused-to-publish-fake-data-breach-disclosures.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an unusual misinformation campaign, fraudulent data breach disclosures were submitted to Maine\u2019s official breach portal and publicly posted before their legitimacy could be verified, prompting companies to deny the claims.<\/p>\n<p>A notice allegedly filed by multiplayer social virtual reality platform VRChat is the most recent entry in the state Attorney General\u2019s breach disclosure database.<\/p>\n<p>However, a company representative told BleepingComputer that the breach notification is fake and has been filed using the name of a fictitious employee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unusual misinformation campaign, fraudulent data breach disclosures were submitted to Maine\u2019s official breach portal and publicly posted before their legitimacy could be verified, prompting companies to deny the claims. A notice allegedly filed by multiplayer social virtual reality platform VRChat is the most recent entry in the state Attorney General\u2019s breach disclosure database. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}