Interpol announced an alliance with major cybersecurity firms to accelerate breach notifications when stolen data surfaces in criminal marketplaces monitored by threat intelligence teams.
Under the arrangement, participating firms feed sanitized indicators from underground forums into Interpol's cyber directorate, which routes alerts to national units in affected countries within hours instead of weeks.
Officials cited cases where earlier warnings could have prevented follow-on fraud, noting that the average victim organization learns of a breach months after their data is first traded.
Privacy safeguards were built into the framework, with data-sharing limited to breach indicators rather than the underlying stolen datasets.
