People search Receita Federal (RFB) data breach timeline because the brand sits on billions of accounts, credentials, and cloud workloads. BreachHistory indexes 1 Receita Federal (RFB)-linked incident, with headline counts up to 279M+ in catalog rows. This page maps every attested event through 2026 with internal links to canonical records.
Why Receita Federal (RFB) breach history matters
Receita Federal (RFB) operates in Government / Tax Authority (Brazil). Across indexed rows, recurring themes include unverified actor or scraping claims. Understanding the chronological pattern helps security teams, customers, and regulators separate confirmed disclosures from forum marketing.
Full timeline through 2026
2026 — forum CPF dataset sale claim; 279,008,638 records (unverified)
Unverified claim — treat actor counts cautiously. Unverified leak-site / forum sale claim — observed July 17, 2026. Dark Web Informer reported a forum actor advertising a purported Receita Federal–sourced dataset of 279,008,638 CPF/citizen records (~69.6GB), asking about $10,000 (BTC/XMR), with two 10,000-row samples as proof, plus a cheaper alleged 2019 backup of ~248 million CPF entries (~$1,300). Claimed fields include CPF, names, DOB, contact/address data, parents' names, occupation, cadastral/tax-registration metadata, and death-related records. This follows Exposed categories include Actor-claimed for alleged 2026 set (~69.6GB; two 10k-record samples): CPF numbers, full names, dates of birth, emails, phones, residential addresses, postal codes, municipalities, . BreachHistory cites approximately 279M+ affected records in this row. See the receita-federal-cpf-sale 2026 record and canonical BreachHistory entry.
Patterns and analysis
- Unverified actor or scraping claims — appears across multiple Receita Federal (RFB) catalog entries; prioritize controls that address this class of failure.
- Record-count hygiene — BreachHistory indexes actor-cited figures separately from company-confirmed totals; read each row's technicalWriteup before treating counts as fact.
- 2026 monitoring — New disclosures roll into this timeline as they are verified or labeled unverified per catalog policy.
What to do if you may be affected
- Step 1: Enable phishing-resistant MFA on every account tied to this brand.
- Step 2: Use unique passwords and a password manager—breach rows often involve credential reuse.
- Step 3: Monitor official company breach notices and regulator filings, not dark-web downloads.
- Step 4: Bookmark the Receita Federal (RFB) company page for new 2026+ disclosures.
Canonical BreachHistory hub
Explore every indexed row: breachhistory.com/receita-federal · Latest: receita-federal-cpf-sale2026.
Sources: BreachHistory catalog (1 row for Receita Federal (RFB)), company and regulator disclosures cited in individual breach records.