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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.
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 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]
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 ...
Now with this tally of more than 100 million, first published on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights' Breach Portal Thursday, the attack has become the largest ...
By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens-Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the ...
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
Previous years of data show the numbers trend higher later in the calendar year, suggesting 2024's final count may beat last year's record of 3,203 data breaches, up from the previous record of ...