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AT&T Data Breach. AT&T, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, experienced a data breach in July 2024 that impacted approximately 70 million customers. The breach ...
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.
Previous years of data show the numbers trend higher later in the calendar year, suggesting 2024's final count may beat last year's record of 3,203 data breaches, up from the previous record of ...
It is unclear whether temporary loss of access to data is enough to trigger liability, or whether GDPR applies to all incidents related to security or only unauthorised access. [51] Further, the incident could be classed as a "personal data breach" which would be a data breach of the GDPR under Article 4 named "Definitions", paragraph 12.
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center sent notification letters to patients whose information may have been exposed in a third-party vendor's data breach earlier this year.
On 3 March 2022, Yaroslav Vasinskyi was extradited to the United States and arraigned in Texas a few days later. [21] On 1 May 2024, Yaroslav Vasinskyi was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay over $16 million in restitution for "his role in conducting over 2,500 ransomware attacks and demanding over $700 million ...
In the first half of 2024, the number of data breach victims surpassed 1 billion, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. That's a 490% increase from the same time last year ...
The stolen data contains records for people in the US, UK, and Canada. [13] [14] National Public Data confirmed on August 16, 2024, there was a breach originating from someone trying to breach their systems since December 2023, with the breach occurring from April 2024 and over the next few months.