Biggest Data Breaches Of The Last 15 Years [extract]
Biggest Data Breaches Of The Last 15 Years
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In the current data-driven world most people are at cyber risk, and data breaches can affect hundreds of millions, or even billions of people at a time. Indeed, digital technology has increased the supply of data moving, and data breaches have scaled up with it as attackers exploit the data-dependencies of daily life.
How large cyber attacks of the future might become remains speculation, but as this list of the biggest known data breaches of the 21st Century indicates, they have already reached enormous magnitudes.
Hackers and other cyber criminals come up with new ways every day to steal sensitive information or personal data that they can potentially sell or ransom for money. For transparency, this list has been calculated by the number of users impacted, records exposed, or accounts affected. We have also made a distinction between incidents where data was actively stolen or reposted maliciously and those where an organisation has inadvertently left data unprotected and exposed but there has been no significant evidence of misuse. The latter have purposefully not been included in the list.
On this basis, the following is a list of the biggest data breaches in recent history, including details of those affected, who was responsible, and how the companies responded.
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