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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.
Attacks are becoming more prevalent: A December 2023 report compiled by Apple says data breaches are at an all-time high, with more breaches occurring in the U.S. in just the first nine months of ...
The first reported data breach occurred on 5 April 2002 [8] when 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center. [9] Before the widespread adoption of data breach notification laws around 2005, the prevalence of data breaches is difficult to determine.
August: T-Mobile reported that data files with information from about 40 million former or prospective T-Mobile customers, including first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver's license/ID information, were compromised. [192] September and October: 2021 Epik data breach.
The largest data breach in the beginning of 2024 was at mortgage lender LoanDepot, exposing nearly 17 million victims. This is the company's second data breach since 2018, bringing its total to ...
National Public Data breach: 2.9 billion people exposed Hard to imagine much worse than a background-check company being hacked. Their entire job is to dig up and collect nonpublic data.
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.
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 ...