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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.
T-Mobile had previously suffered data breaches in 2009. 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. [2] [3] In 2020 John Erin Binns, who later claimed responsibility for the breach, filed a lawsuit against the American government accusing them of being involved with his alleged kidnapping and torture and attacking him with psychic and energy weapons. [4]
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 ]
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 .
December 2016: Yahoo! data breaches reported and affected more than 1 billion users. The data leakage includes user names, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers, dates of birth, and hashed passwords
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 Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [3] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.
The number of victims impacted by data breaches has skyrocketed into the hundreds of millions, even though the latest data shows slightly fewer data breaches occurred last year compared to 2021.