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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.
National Public Data Breach. National Public Data (NPD), a major government database, experienced one of the largest data breaches this past April, affecting approximately 2.9 billion Social ...
The hack currently sits as the largest-ever breach in the cryptocurrency sector by dollar value. [218] It further damaged the value of SLP. [ 219 ] On 8 April 2022, Sky Mavis said it expected it would be able to recover some of the funds, but it would take several years. [ 220 ]
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.
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 ...
In 2017, consumer credit rating giant Equifax suffered one of the country's largest data breaches, exposing the personal information of 147 million U.S. citizens, or roughly 40% of the population ...
The list, reviewed by computer security experts, contains exposed addresses and passwords from over 2000 previous data breaches as well as an estimated 140 million new email addresses and 10 million new passwords from previously unknown sources, and collectively makes it the largest data breach on the Internet. [1] [2]
Healthcare data and personal information of more than 100 million people was stolen in the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time.