{"id":242825,"date":"2026-08-18T01:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/hacker-claims-3-6-million-azure-account-records-stolen-from-major-companies"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:23:17","slug":"hacker-claims-3-6-million-azure-account-records-stolen-from-major-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/hacker-claims-3-6-million-azure-account-records-stolen-from-major-companies","title":{"rendered":"Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacker-claims-3-6-million-azure-account-records-stolen-from-major-companies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials.<\/p>\n<p>Starting July 31st, multiple posts from someone using the alias \u201cTheHatman\u201d advertised data dumps from major organizations, including McDonald\u2019s, Gap Inc., Vodafone, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, InterContinental Hotels (IHG), and Kyndryl.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the threat actor claims to have 3.64 million data records, with the most recent breach posted on Sunday, containing an alleged 1.7 million employee records from McDonalds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. Starting July 31st, multiple posts from someone using the alias \u201cTheHatman\u201d advertised data dumps from major organizations, including McDonald\u2019s, Gap Inc., Vodafone, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies, InterContinental Hotels (IHG), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242825","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=242825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}