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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.
February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...
Breach Date: June 2018 In June 2018, Exactis, a Florida based data marketing company, leaked 340 million PII records of U.S. citizens. The data leak was discovered by security researcher Vinny Troia, who uncovered the data on an unsecured Elasticsearch database server. Troia stated the data contained information on approximately 280 million ...
A software vulnerability gave hackers access to internal systems and user data at Xfinity, the company said. ... Xfinity said the breach had affected close to 35.9 million user accounts in some way.
Michigan's Identity Theft Protection Act doesn't set parameters for how quickly companies must notify consumers of data breaches, either, saying only that "notice must be made without unreasonable ...
The FCC's probe focused on how AT&T's privacy, cybersecurity and vendor management practices may have played a role in the January 2023 breach, in which hackers penetrated the company's cloud ...
RockYou – in 2009, the company experienced a data breach resulting in the exposure of over 32 million user accounts. Vestige (online store) – in 2010, a band of anonymous hackers has rooted the servers of the site and leaked half a gigabyte's worth of its private data. [19]
The 2018 Google data breach was a major data privacy scandal in which the Google+ API exposed the private data of over five hundred thousand users. [ 1 ] Google+ managers first noticed harvesting of personal data in March 2018, [ 2 ] during a review following the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal .