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After discovering that attack, FireEye reported it to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a federal agency responsible for helping to defend the U.S. from cyberattacks. [1] The NSA is not known to have been aware of the attack before being notified by FireEye. [1] The NSA uses SolarWinds software itself. [1]
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.
June 2015 – United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting personnel records. [9] Approximately 22.1 million records were affected, including records related to government employees, other people who had undergone background checks, and their friends and family. [10] [11]
But because these attacks happen in cyberspace, the battlefield is less tangible, and nation-state attacks blend in with service outages like AT&T’s, which turned out to be a software update ...
These attacks relate to stealing login information for specific web resources. RockYou – in 2009, the company experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. Vestige (online store) – in 2010, a band of anonymous hackers has rooted the servers of the site and leaked half a gigabyte's worth of its private ...
The first known Distributed Denial of Service attack occurred in 1996 when Panix, now one of the oldest internet service providers, was knocked offline for several days by a SYN flood, a technique ...
By David Goldman NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- There's a good chance your bank's website was attacked over the past week. Since Sept. 19, the websites of Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM ...
State-sponsored hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government carried out the attack. [4] [7] The data breach consisted of two separate, but linked, attacks. [8] It is unclear when the first attack occurred but the second attack happened on May 7, 2014, when attackers posed as an employee of KeyPoint Government Solutions, a subcontracting ...