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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.
The breach began around April 2023 and lasted about five months, affecting nearly half of the 14.1 million customers in 23andMe's database at the time. It was disclosed by 23andMe in an October ...
Updated August 22, 2024 at 11:39 AM. National Public Data, which aggregates data to provide background checks, has confirmed it suffered a massive data breach involving Social Security numbers and ...
In 2023, HCA Healthcare, which operates 182 hospitals and thousands of health care facilities across 20 states, experienced the third-largest health data breach overall and the largest of the year ...
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based ...
The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts. The 2014 breach affected over 500 million user accounts. Both breaches are considered the largest ever discovered and included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and security questions—both encrypted and unencrypted.
Confirm the Data Breach Is Real. The first thing you need to do when you get a notice about a data breach is to confirm it’s real. “Verify that this isn’t fake news and that the company you ...
23andMe data leak. The 23andMe data leak was a data breach at personal genomics company 23andMe reported in October 2023. The cyberattack gathered profile and ethnicity information from millions of users. The affected customers were reported as primarily Ashkenazi Jews but also including hundreds of thousands of ethnically Chinese users. [1]