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In January 2024, a data breach dubbed the "mother of all breaches" was uncovered. [6] Over 26 billion records, including some from Twitter, Adobe, Canva, LinkedIn, and Dropbox, were found in the database. [7] [8] No organization immediately claimed responsibility. [9] In August 2024, one of the largest data security breaches was revealed.
In summer 2021, T-Mobile US confirmed that the company had been subject to a data breach. A hacker called John Erin Binns took credit for the release of millions of customer records and the event was a contribution to T-Mobile receiving a fine of $15 million in 2024.
The hackers retrieved data from 2022. The data also include records from January 2, 2023, for a very small number of customers, according to the press release .
The Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau received the data from the United States Department of Justice through a mutual legal assistance treaty. [33] The Bureau provided the data to the HSE on 17 December 2021. [33] The HSE confirmed that said data was taken from its computers. [33] The HSE also contacted the Data Protection Commissioner about ...
AT&T has been subject to subsequent breaches, including an April cyberattack it disclosed in July in which hackers "nearly all" of its cellular customers' text and call records for a six-month ...
The federal government gave OAIC $5.5 million to investigate the breach over two years in its October 2022 budget. [25] Law firm Slater & Gordon launched a class action alleging Optus "breached laws and its own policies by failing to adequately protect customer data and destroy or de-identify former customer data". The ongoing class action was ...
Data breaches continue in 2023 as T-Mobile announced a data breach in January impacting 37 million accounts. The U.S. Marshals Service, meantime, reported a "major" security breach in February.
Even afterwards, statistics per year cannot be relied on because data breaches may be reported years after they occurred, [10] or not reported at all. [11] Nevertheless, the statistics show a continued increase in the number and severity of data breaches that continues as of 2022 [update] . [ 12 ]