Data Breaches facts
While investigating facts about Data Breaches 2019 and Data Breaches List, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Uber paid hackers $100,000 to cover up a data breach affecting 57 million customers and drivers
how data breaches happen?
Marketing firm Exactis leaked over 340 million records of personal information on public unprotected servers (data including but not limited to age and gender of children, addresses, pets, smoking habits, etc) and this breach affects nearly every single American.
What data breaches need to be reported to the ico?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what data breaches should be reported to the ico. Here are 9 of the best facts about Data Breaches 2018 and Data Breaches 2020 I managed to collect.
what data breaches need to be reported?
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The owner of one of the most successful international League of Legends teams was responsible for the “largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States”
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In 2014 there were a total of 783 data breaches, exposing over 86 million records. (pdf)
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Data Breach Hits Malaysian University, Personal Data Leaked
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Using data from released/exposed/discovered password tables and security breaches a guy found that 11% of 3.4 million 4 digit pin numbers were "1234". The next most popular 4-digit PIN in use is "1111" with over 6%.
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Facebook exposed hundreds of millions of user records in April 2019 in their largest data breach ever.
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The UK's data protection agency has itself suffered a data protection breach
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In June of 2015 the OPM (United States Office of Personnel Management) was victim to a massive data breach, affecting 21.5 Million people's personal data including 5.6 million fingerprints.
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