543
words,
3
minutes to read
1. Verifications.io data breach
Date: February 2019
Impact: 763 million users
Data: names, phone numbers, IP addresses, dates of birth and genders.
2. Facebook data breach 2019
Date: April 2019
Impact: 540 million users
Data: 146 gigabytes of comments, likes, reactions, account names, FB IDs and more.
3. First American Financial Corp. data breach
Date: May 2019
Impact: 885 million users
Data: sensitive records (of 16 years!), including bank account records, social security numbers, wire transactions, and other mortgage paperwork.
4. Canva data breach
Date: May 2019
Impact: 137 million users
Data: email addresses, names, usernames, cities and passwords stored as bcrypt hashes.
5. MGM Grand data breach
Date: Feb 2020
Impact: 10.6 million customers
Data: contact information of former hotel guests including celebrities, CEOs and government officials.
6. Slickwraps data breach
Date: Fev 2020
Impact: 370,000 customers
Data: Customer data
7. CAM4 data breach
Date: March 2020
Impact: 10.88 billion records.
Data: Full names, Email addresses, Sexual orientation, Chat transcripts, Email correspondence transcripts, Password hashes, IP addresses, Payment logs
8. Marriott data breach
Date: March 2020
Impact: 5.2 million guests
Data: Email address , Mail addresses, Phone numbers, Company names, Gender, Birth dates, Accommodation preferences, Language preferences, Linked airline loyalty programs and numbers
9. Antheus Tecnologia data breach
Date: March 2020 Impact: 76,000 fingerprints Data: finger print data points + 81.5 million records were accessed, consisting of email addresses, employee telephone numbers and administrator login information.
10. SolarWinds data breach
Date: March 2020
Impact: 18,000 customers
Data: customer data, including six U.S Government departments'.
10. Zoom data breach
Date: April 2020 Impact: 500,000 users. Data: user accounts (sold or freely published on the dark web)
11. Magellan Health ransomware attack
Date: Apr 2020
Impact: 365,000 patients
Data: patient social security numbers, W-2 information and employee ID numbers
12. Nintendo data breach
Date: April 2020
Impact: 300,000 accounts.
Data: Account passwords, Account owner name, DOB, Email addresses, Country of residence
13. Easyjet data breach
Date: May 2020
Impact: 9 million customers.
Data: travel details, email addresses, and complete credit card details of 2,208 customers.
14. Mailfire data breach
Date: September 2020
Impact: 100,000 users.
Data: Name, Age, DOB, Gender, Location of message senders, IP addresses, Member profile pictures, Member bio descriptions
15. Twitter phone spear phishing attack 2020
Date: July 2020
Impact: 130 users
High profile (like Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden and Bill Gates) accounts were publishing a bitcoin scam. 130 accounts were targeted including those of
The following message was tweeted:
“I’m giving back to the community. All bitcoin sent to the address below will be sent back doubled! If you send $1000, I will send back $2000. Only doing this for 30 minutes,”
