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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.
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]
2017 Equifax data breach – In 2017, Equifax Inc. announced that a cyber-security breach occurred between May and mid July of that year. Cyber criminals had accessed approximately 145.5 million U.S. Equifax consumers' personal data, including their full names, Social Security numbers , credit card information, birth dates , addresses , and, in ...
The largest data breach in the beginning of 2024 was at mortgage lender LoanDepot, exposing nearly 17 million victims. ... institutions to report data breaches impacting 500 or more people within ...
Healthcare data and personal information of more than 100 million people was stolen in the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare in February, UnitedHealth has confirmed for the first time.
Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson: Data breaches in 2024 exposed info of millions, stressing the need for better cybersecurity.
December 2016: Yahoo! data breaches reported and affected more than 1 billion users. The data leakage includes user names, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers, dates of birth, and hashed passwords
In 2017, consumer credit rating giant Equifax suffered one of the country's largest data breaches, exposing the personal information of 147 million U.S. citizens, or roughly 40% of the population ...