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The biggest data breaches of 2024 exposed critical vulnerabilities across industries, from healthcare to telecommunications. Let's examine the root causes, impacts, and expert-recommended ...
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.
In summer 2021, T-Mobile US confirmed that the company had been subject to a data breach. A hacker called John Erin Binns took credit for the release of millions of customer records and the event was a contribution to T-Mobile receiving a fine of $15 million in 2024. [1]
Data breaches are on track for a record year in 2024 as cybercriminals increasingly hunt for valuable information. On average, a data breach exposing sensitive information, such as Social Security ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
National Public Data breach: 2.9 billion people exposed Hard to imagine much worse than a background-check company being hacked. Their entire job is to dig up and collect nonpublic data.