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Cybersecurity Alert
August 9, 2026 by EmailMeNow IT Consulting

1 New Breach Added to Have I Been Pwned on August 9, 2026: 218,395 Accounts

Have I Been Pwned added 1 breach on August 9, 2026, exposing 218,395 accounts globally. Alcon led the batch with 218,395 accounts.

Source: Have I Been Pwned

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Have I Been Pwned breach roundup for August 9, 2026

Have I Been Pwned indexed 1 new breach on August 9, 2026, according to a fresh pull of the public breaches API. Combined, these listings cover 218,395 breached accounts worldwide.

The largest addition — Alcon — accounts for 218,395 accounts in this batch. Figures are global credential-breach totals, not state-resident counts. See our live HIBP 2026 tracker for month-to-date charts.

August month-to-date now totals 5 HIBP listings covering 12,961,550 accounts indexed through August 9, 2026.

Breaches Added August 9, 2026

BreachDomainAccountsBreach Date
Alconalcon.com218,395August 1, 2026

HIBP indexes verified breaches after independent confirmation. A breach date reflects when the incident occurred; the added date reflects when HIBP made the listing searchable.

Multi-source context

This is the Have I Been Pwned source detail for August 9, 2026. It covers this source’s new listings only — not the multi-source week digest.

For the combined Texas / HHS / SEC / AG / HIBP YTD snapshot, companies table, and cross-source audits, see Breach data week of August 9, 2026.

Other recent source roundups:

Independent Cybersecurity Audits

EmailMeNow domain audits on August 9, 2026 scored 1 filer domain in this batch. 1 of 1 show 15% Transport Security or below — a recurring gap that makes spoofed breach-notification email easier to deliver.

Pattern: Scores below the 100% ideal on identity or transport still leave room for spoofed incident-response email — even when website headers score higher.

OrganizationDomainOverallIdentityTransportWebsiteRisk
Alconalcon.com59%40%15%90%Average

Audit links: alcon.com

Source: Have I Been Pwned — Pwned Websites