In August 2024, over 332M rows of email addresses were posted to a popular hacking forum. The post alleged the addresses were scraped from cybersecurity firm SOCRadar, however an investigation on their behalf concluded that "the actor merely utilised functionalities inherent in the platform's standard offerings, designed to gather information from publicly available sources". There is no suggestion the incident compromised SOCRadar's security or posed any risk to their customers. In total, the data set contained 282M unique addresses of valid email address format. // What happened in the , Unknown Breach (not SOCRadar), Breach?, DataBreach.com Team, · November 30th 2024, 7:00 pm EST, In August 2024, a dataset containing over 332 million email addresses was posted on Breach Forums, a well-known cybercrime forum. The post alleged that these addresses were scraped from the cybersecurity firm SOCRadar. However, SOCRadar's investigation concluded that there was "no data breach involving our customers or SOCRadar's internal systems" and that the data was scraped from Telegram channels. ​The dataset, totaling approximately 14GB in CSV format, contained only email addresses without associated passwords or personal information. Despite this, cybersecurity experts warned of potential risks, including phishing attacks, spam campaigns, and brute-force login attempts, especially if combined with credentials from other data breaches. ​,