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DigiCert confirms breach exposing archived customer contact details and identity documents

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confirmed unauthorised access to an internal business system holding archived customer data, including names, business contact details and, for a small minority of accounts, passports, driver's licences and utility bills. The exposure stemmed from a February 2025 migration that made the system internet-reachable, plus an account registration feature not covered by MFA that gave read-only access to archived records between 27 June and 2 July 2026. DigiCert says its CA services, and were unaffected and no certificate issuance or revocation activity was linked to the access.

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What to do

  1. Customers do not need to replace active certificates because of this incident.
  2. Watch for a notification from DigiCert, which says it will contact affected individuals once its review of identity documents is complete.

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