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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.
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.
A wave of cyberattacks and data breaches began in June 2023 after a vulnerability was discovered in MOVEit, a managed file transfer software. Thousands of organisations and almost 100 million individuals were affected.
A number of news outlets, including Bleeping Computer, reported that a ransom demand of €16.5 million (about $20 million) was made, offering to decrypt data and to not publish "private data". [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Initially, the Business Post reported that a ransom demand of three bitcoin or €124,000 (about $150,000) was made. [ 40 ]
The incident is believed to have involved a third-party bad actor that was trying to hack into data in late December 2023, with potential leaks of certain data in April 2024 and summer 2024."
The financial industry suffered the most data breaches in 2023—including a single attack that affected nearly 1,000 institutions María Soledad Davila Calero February 9, 2024 at 1:22 PM
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were a series of cyberattacks that began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers, and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
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.