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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 continual
Considered the biggest hack in history in terms of cost and destructiveness. Carried out by an Iranian attacker group called Cutting Sword of Justice. [92] Iranian hackers retaliated against Stuxnet by releasing Shamoon. The malware destroyed over 35,000 Saudi Aramco computers, affecting business operations for months.
The initial wave of this hacking incident took place when around 6 million users’ information was sold on a hacking message board. This led to a massive data scrape of Twitter’s users.
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
CrowdStrike's own post-incident investigation identified several errors that led to the release of a fault update to the "Crowdstrike Sensor Detection Engine": [13] [non-primary source needed] The channel files [ clarification needed ] were validated using Regex patterns with wildcards and loaded into an array instead of using a parser for this ...
Anonymous declared a large hacking sequence on May 28, three days after the murder of George Floyd. An individual claiming to be Anonymous stated that "We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." in a now-deleted video. Anonymous addressed police brutality and vowed that they "will be exposing your many crimes to the world".
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the co-founder of Pirate Bay, was convicted in Denmark of hacking a mainframe computer, what was then Denmark's biggest hacking case. [ 45 ] January 7: "Team Appunity", a group of Norwegian hackers, were arrested for breaking into Norway's largest prostitution website, then publishing the user database online.
San Bernardino County officials confirmed that hackers had been paid a $1.1-million ransom after a cyberattack on the Sheriff's Department, an unusual move for hacks involving law enforcement ...