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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.
BlackPOS, also known as Kaptoxa, is a point-of-sale malware program designed to be installed in a point of sale (POS) system to scrape data from debit and credit cards. BlackPOS was used in the Target Corporation data breach of 2013. [1] [2]
On December 18, 2013, security expert Brian Krebs broke news [64] that Target was investigating a major data breach "potentially involving millions of customer credit and debit card records". On December 19, Target confirmed the incident via a press release, [ 65 ] revealing that the hack took place between November 27 and December 15, 2013.
In December 2013, a data breach of Target's systems affected up to 110 million customers. [117] [118] Compromised customer information included names, phone numbers, email and mailing addresses. [119] In March 2015, Target reached a class-action settlement with affected consumers for $10 million (plus class-action attorney fees). [120]
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Target's data breach means that as many as 40 million consumers' credit and debit cards could be in the hands of identity thieves -- just in time for the holidays. It's a dump truck of coal for ...
Many data breaches occur on the hardware operated by a partner of the organization targeted—including the 2013 Target data breach and 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach. [29] Outsourcing work to a third party leads to a risk of data breach if that company has lower security standards; in particular, small companies often lack the resources to ...
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.