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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.
Failure to erase and correct data at the request of the data subject. [6] 2019-03-07: Unnamed debt collector: €1,560: Hungary : Breaching the principles of transparency and data minimisation. [7] 2019-03-15: Bisnode (business, credit and market information) €220,000: Poland : Covert scraping of personal data. [8] 2019-03-16
Data breaches are happening at an alarming rate as more and more data is stored in the cloud. In 2023, 82% of breaches involved data stored in the cloud, according to an IBM report as reported by ...
-Hackers have compromised several different companies' Chrome browser extensions in a series of intrusions dating back to mid-December, according to one of the victims and experts who have ...
November: The Anonymous hacktivist collective announced that they have hacked into four Chinese computer databases and donated those to data breach indexing/notification service vigilante.pw. The hack was conducted in order to support the 2019 Hong Kong protests , amidst the Hong Kong police's siege of the city's Polytechnic University .
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says it was notified of a data breach by IT contractor CGI Federal. The GAO said that about 6,000 people, "primarily current and former GAO employees from ...
February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...
British Airways is facing a $229 million fine over a breach that compromised information on half a million customers -- the biggest penalty to date,