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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.
November: The Anonymous hacktivist collective announced that they have hacked into four Chinese computer databases and donated those to data breach indexing/notification service vigilante.pw. The hack was conducted in order to support the 2019 Hong Kong protests , amidst the Hong Kong police's siege of the city's Polytechnic University .
The threat of data breach or revealing information obtained in a data breach can be used for extortion. [16] Consumers may suffer various forms of tangible or intangible harm from the theft of their personal data, or not notice any harm. [91] A significant portion of those affected by a data breach become victims of identity theft. [82]
The credit reporting agency reached a $700 million settlement with government officials last week, agreeing to pay as much as $425 million of that money to consumers affected by the data breach.
The lawsuit also alleges that the city "has done little" to remedy the data breach and argues that its offering of credit monitoring services is "wholly insufficient" to compensate victims.
Exactis became notable in June 2018, after a discovery by cybersecurity researcher Vinny Troia [4] detailed how the organization made nearly 340 million detailed records about United States citizens available on a publicly accessible server, [2] [5] [3] leaving those people at heightened risk of being impersonated, profiled or otherwise exploited through social engineering.
A federal judge in New York granted the 19 states suing over DOGE's access to highly sensitive taxpayer records a temporary restraining order. Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote that the court believed ...
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.