Multiple outlets report that the Tribeca Festival experiences a data leak that exposes large volumes of records and personal contact information for thousands of high-profile figures. Variety and India Today both describe the breach as including information tied to prominent celebrities, with Variety naming Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert De Niro, who is also identified as a festival co-founder.
Variety says cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovers the exposed files and reports the findings in an ExpressVPN blog post. The outlet characterizes the leak as extensive, involving hundreds of thousands of records alongside the contact details of thousands of celebrities.
Across the reporting, the accounts focus on the scale of the exposed dataset, the identities of people whose contact information appears in it, and the role of Fowler’s investigation and disclosure. The sources do not consistently provide specific details about how the leak occurred, who accessed it, or whether any direct misuse is confirmed. The reports therefore primarily establish what information is said to be exposed and who is named in the affected data.
