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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.
The list, reviewed by computer security experts, contains exposed addresses and passwords from over 2000 previous data breaches as well as an estimated 140 million new email addresses and 10 million new passwords from previously unknown sources, and collectively makes it the largest data breach on the Internet. [1] [2]
The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [3] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.
LivingSocial – in 2013, the company suffered a security breach that has exposed names, e-mail addresses and password data for up to 50 million of its users. [25] World Health Organization – in March 2020, hackers leaked information on login credentials from the staff members at WHO. [26]
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 .
Forbes columnist Kashmir Hill noted "The Internet predictably panicked as the story of yet another massive password breach went viral." and "[T]his is a pretty direct link between a panic and a pay-out for a security firm." [5] Hold Security's website had a service offering people to check if their username and password pair had been stolen. It ...
In 2016, researcher Sasha Romanosky estimated that while the mean breach cost around the targeted firm $5 million, this figure was inflated by a few highly expensive breaches, and the typical data breach was much less costly, around $200,000. Romanosky estimated the total annual cost to corporations in the United States to be around $10 billion.
2014 Russian hacker password theft; 2015 TalkTalk data breach; 2016 Indian bank data breach; 2018 Google data breach; 2018 SingHealth data breach; 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach; 2022 Optus data breach; 2023 Bangladesh Government website data breach; 2023 MOVEit data breach; 2024 cyberattack on Kadokawa and Niconico