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Hacker claims 49 million Dell customer records
Dell warned customers after a hacker abused a partner portal to scrape and sell 49 million order records containing names and addresses.
- Organisation
- Dell
- Disclosed
- 8 May 2024
- Affected
- 49,000,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Names, addresses, order details
- Attacker
- Menelik
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM-Alliance ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Hacker claims 49 million Dell customer records”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 8 May 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-05-08-dell-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM-Alliance, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/top-10-biggest-cyber-attacks-of-2024-25-other-attacks-to-know-about.
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