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The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts. The 2014 breach affected over 500 million user accounts. Both breaches are considered the largest ever discovered and included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and security questions—both encrypted and unencrypted.
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the ...
Robert Morris is dismissed from Cornell, sentenced to three years' probation, and fined $10,000. [33] First National Bank of Chicago is the victim of $70 million computer theft. The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is created by DARPA to address network security.
Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017, 2021–present) Yahoo (/ ˈjɑːhuː /, styled yahoo! in its logo) [4][5] is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon.
The Breach. The Yahoo Voices breach occurred on July 12, 2012, when a hacking group calling themselves "D33DS Company" used a union-based SQL injection attack to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo's servers. [5] The attackers were able to extract and publish unencrypted account details, including emails and passwords, for approximately 450,000 ...
The first announced breach, reported in September 2016, had occurred sometime in late 2014, and affected over 500 million Yahoo! user accounts. [43] A separate data breach, occurring earlier around August 2013, was reported in December 2016, and affected over 1 billion user accounts. [ 44 ]
Voices hack. 2014 Russian hacker password theft. 2015 TalkTalk data breach. 2016 Indian bank data breach. 2018 Google data breach. 2018 SingHealth data breach. 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach. 2022 Optus data breach. 2023 Bangladesh Government website data breach.
December 14, 2016: A separate data breach, occurring earlier around August 2013 is reported. This breach affected over 1 billion user accounts and is again considered the largest discovered in the history of the Internet. [152] The data taken is similar to the data breached earlier except that it had very weak password encryption.