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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.
On August 27, 2024, The Washington Post reported that two major internet service providers in the United States had been compromised by China. [1] AT&T, Verizon, Lumen Technologies, and T-Mobile were reported to have been affected by the Salt Typhoon advanced persistent threat linked to the China's Ministry of State Security.
Southwest Airlines (the third largest US major airline by domestic passengers) was entirely unaffected. A Southwest spokesperson confirmed that the airline had seen no impact from the CrowdStrike outage but refused to confirm speculation among aviation industry analysts that it had been shielded by its notoriously outdated software.
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(Reuters) -The February hack at UnitedHealth's tech unit Change affected the personal information of 100 million people, the U.S. health department's website showed, making it the largest ...
A class action lawsuit has sparked a viral but unsubstantiated claim that the Social Security numbers of all U.S. citizens were leaked as part of a data breach this year.
Considered the biggest hack in history in terms of cost and destructiveness. Carried out by an Iranian attacker group called Cutting Sword of Justice. [92] Iranian hackers retaliated against Stuxnet by releasing Shamoon. The malware destroyed over 35,000 Saudi Aramco computers, affecting business operations for months.
Although it was one of the largest DeFi hacks ever, all assets were eventually returned over the following two weeks. [46] Wormhole hack – in early February 2022, an unknown hacker exploited a vulnerability on the DeFi platform Wormhole, making off with $320 million in wrapped ether. [47] [48]