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Dell Data Breach: Understanding Your Notification
A 2024 portal-scraping incident exposed Dell customer names, addresses, and order details. Here is a plain-English look at the risk.
- State
- TX
- Affected
- 49,000,000
- Breach date
- May 9, 2024
- Reported
- February 11, 2026
What may have been exposed
- names
- physical addresses
- hardware and order information
The Dell incident stemmed from an online portal being scraped for customer records. Reported exposed data includes names, physical addresses, and hardware or order information. This data set did not reportedly include Social Security or payment data, which lowers direct financial risk, but it is well suited to convincing tech-support and delivery scams. Treat unsolicited Dell-branded outreach with caution.