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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.
April 17: An "external intrusion" sends the PlayStation Network offline, and compromises personally identifying information (possibly including credit card details) of its 77 million accounts, in what is claimed to be one of the five largest data breaches ever. [74]
The list, reviewed by computer security experts, contains exposed addresses and passwords from over 2000 previous data breaches as well as an estimated 140 million new email addresses and 10 million new passwords from previously unknown sources, and collectively makes it the largest data breach on the Internet. [1] [2]
National Public Data Breach. National Public Data (NPD), a major government database, experienced one of the largest data breaches this past April, affecting approximately 2.9 billion Social ...
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
In 2017, consumer credit rating giant Equifax suffered one of the country's largest data breaches, exposing the personal information of 147 million U.S. citizens, or roughly 40% of the population ...
Now with this tally of more than 100 million, first published on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights' Breach Portal Thursday, the attack has become the largest ...
Government institutions and companies from various business sectors were affected. In total, the researchers had access to over 6.4 million personal data records, as well as terabytes of log data and source code. [151] [152] March: As a response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Anonymous performed many attacks against computer systems ...