The data leak exposed personal data of 100m US citizens, resulting from a misconfigured database made accessible online

The Dell data breach – originally reported by the BleepingComputer website – was posted by the grep profile on a data breach community forum. It said that Dell had suffered a “minor data breach that exposed internal employees data”, before going on to state that more than 10,800 Dell employees and their partners had been affected.

Dell has confirmed that it's investigating claims about a breach that apparently exposed the data of over 10,000 employees.

Dell Technologies has allegedly suffered two data breaches since Thursday amounting to a breach of over 3.5GB of data belonging to at least 10,000 company employees. A hacker using the alias “grep” had claimed the first breach by posting a sample of the stolen dataset on BreachForums for free,