Brazilian National Treasury breach exposes 30,000 registration records and 4,000 Pix keys
The Brazilian National Treasury detected unauthorised access to its systems on 4 November, with approximately 30,000 service user registration records and approximately 4,000 Pix keys belonging to recipients of government payments exposed. The exposed information included names, taxpayer identification numbers, email addresses and information relating to government payments. The Treasury suspended some lookup systems to investigate and fix vulnerabilities, and said its core financial systems were operating normally and there had been no financial losses.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Brazilian National Treasury
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- 2026-11-04
- Scale of damage
- Approximately 30,000 user registration records and approximately 4,000 Pix keys
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to Treasury systems and internal databases
- Location
- Brazil
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Timeline
- Unauthorised access to Treasury systems occurred, and the agency detected the incident.
- The exposure of approximately 30,000 registration records and approximately 4,000 Pix keys became known, and authorities said there had been no financial losses.
- The Treasury said it had suspended some systems, including document and statistics lookup services, to investigate and fix vulnerabilities, while its core financial systems continued to operate normally.
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