The 72 Biggest Data Breaches Ranked by Impact Each of the data breaches reveals the mistakes that lead to the exposure of up to millions of personal data records . 1. CAM4 Data Breach Date: March 2020 Impact: 10.88 billion records. Adult video streaming website CAM4 has had its Elasticsear...
A number of lessons can be learned from looking at past data breaches. In fact, some of the most damaging breaches listed here could have been prevented if organizations had followed simplecybersecurity hygiene best practices. Learn more about the biggest data breaches, based on number ...
FireEye: FireEye disclosed a cyberattack, suspected to be the work of a nation-state group. The cybersecurity firm said the hack resulted in penetration tools being stolen. The biggest hacks, data breaches of 2020 (so far) Previous and related coverage The biggest hacks, data breaches of...
It's up to each individual business to continue lifting this standard with additional data breach prevention controls. To help Australian businesses avoid some of the common malpractices that facilitate data breaches, we've compiled a list of some of the biggest data breaches in Australia, ranked ...
Hackers last year quietly stole a database containing the details of over 57 million people. The breach has only come to light this week, after the stolen data was put up for sale on the dark web. The breach data contains data spanning three years between 2012 and 2015, including username...
7. Chinese Espionage Breaches Dutch Defence In a revealed cybersecurity incident, the Dutch Ministry of Defence fell victim to aChinese cyber-espionage operation last year. The Netherlands’ Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD)uncoveredmalware deployment, including a particularly persistent str...
5 of the biggest data breaches ever If you live in the U.S. and breathe oxygen, there's a good chance you may be impacted by the latest security breach. Equifax (EFX) revealed Thursday that the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans -- or nearly half the country --...
I know it’s lame, and many people find it boring or a waste of time, but there are gems in those programs to remain safe. Don’t throw the baby (Security Awareness Training) out with the bathwater (bad acting in poorly edited educational videos) ...
s digital landscape it’s dangerous to still believe that ‘it won’t happen to me.’ According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 43% of breaches involve small businesses, a worrying statistic which also represents the largest share of all the attacks within th...
The Large Hadron Collider has restarted, with protons circling the machine’s 27km tunnel for the first time since 2013. Particle beams have now travelled in both directions, inside parallel pipes, at a whisker below the speed of light. Actual collisions will not begin for at least another mo...