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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.
June 2015 – United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting personnel records. [9] Approximately 22.1 million records were affected, including records related to government employees, other people who had undergone background checks, and their friends and family. [10] [11]
[2] [3] One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, [1] information that was obtained and exfiltrated in the breach [4] included personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, [5] as well as names, dates and places of birth, and addresses. [6]
AT&T Data Breach. AT&T, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the United States, experienced a data breach in July 2024 that impacted approximately 70 million customers. The breach ...
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Millions of consumers have been victims of data breaches. The largest data breach in the beginning of 2024 was at mortgage lender LoanDepot, exposing nearly 17 million victims.
The number of people affected by a UnitedHealth data breach in February 2024 was actually higher than previously reported and was the largest medical data breach in U.S. history.
In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches.