![]() In September 2022, it reported a severe breach where possibly 9.8 million customers had their data leaked. Summary: Optus is an Australian telecommunications company. It also had 10GB of sensitive information. This information included users’ full names, email addresses, countries, passwords, payment information, and account status. They then posted the stolen data on a Telegram group where anyone could freely download it. Summary: In May 2022, attackers stole the personal information of 21 million users of networks SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN. The data stolen included users’ personal information such as names, usernames, email addresses, Ip addresses, gender, date of birth, PIN for Neopets, hashed passwords, and information about the users’ pets and gameplay. The attackers attempted to sell this data for four bitcoins, which alerted Neopets to the breach. The hackers had access to this database from January 3, 2022, to July 19, 2022. Summary: Hackers breached Neopets’s database and stole the personal data of potentially 69 million users (current and former) and 460 MB of source code. We have a guide to help you understand what data privacy vs. They stole credit card details, passport information, and other personal information dating back to 2014. In September 2018, Marriott International lost 383 million records when cybercriminals hacked the reservation system of all Starwood hotels, including Westin, Le Meridien, and Sheraton. Marriott International – 383,000,000 records lost The hackers also managed to leak 339 million accounts from, including 15 million “deleted” accounts that had never actually been deleted from the site’s server. As a result, over 412 million accounts were exposed. In November 2016, the adult dating and entertainment company Friend Finder Network was targeted by cybercriminals. Friend Finder Network – 412,000,000 records lost The hacker tried to sell the information for $2,800 or 6 Bitcoin on the dark web. The leaked information contained emails, passwords, usernames, and second passwords. Both parties claimed that they had obtained the data from a past, unreported data security incident. In May 2016, a search engine for hacked data and a hacker obtained over 400 million records from MySpace. At the time, this was the biggest data breach in history. In September 2016, a state-sponsored actor stole 500 million records from Yahoo, including dates of birth, names, and security information. The leaked information contained personal information of its employees, trade secrets, intellectual property, sensitive information of its suppliers, customers, vendors, and other important financial information.įurthermore, the company discovered that hackers had been in its system for years, meaning the data leak could have potentially impacted more than 200 of its clients and millions of mobile users around the world. Many telecommunications companies worldwide use Syniverse, including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, China Mobile, and Vodaphone. Syniverse, a company that forms a critical part of the global telecommunications infrastructure, revealed in a filing on September 27, 2021, with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that hackers gained access to 500 million records. These included full names, phone numbers, user locations, biographical information, and email addresses. A whopping 533 million user records from 106 countries were posted onto a hacking forum. In March 2021, hackers scraped the social media giant Facebook due to a vulnerability that was patched in 2019. However, this breach of data included lots of repeated and fake accounts. ![]() ![]() As a result, over 700 million records - roughly equivalent to one email address for every man, woman, and child in Europe - were leaked. In August 2017, a spambot leaked passwords and emails due to a misconfiguration. The breached data was put on sale on WhatsApp for less than £6. This breach meant that every registered Indian citizen was affected, and their identity numbers, bank details, and names were all leaked. ![]() In March 2018, India’s biometric database, Aadhaar, was breached through a leak at a state-owned utility organization. This breach happened when River City Media accidentally published a snapshot of a backup from January 2017 without password protection. In March 2017, a spam email operator exposed 1.37 billion records by accident, making it one of the most major data breaches ever. River City Media – 1,370,000,000 records lost Fortunately, the stolen data didn’t include crucial information such as payment data, unhashed passwords, or bank account numbers. In 2013, hackers breached Yahoo’s system and leaked customer info from over 3 billion accounts.
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