Our updated list for 2023 ranks the 72 biggest data breaches of all time, ranked by impact. Learn from their mistakes to avoid costly damages.
Account hijacks on Twitter have happened before, but this is the first time it's happened at such an unprecedented scale on the social network, leading to speculations that hackers grabbed control of a Twitter employee'sadministrative accessto "take over a prominent account and tweet on their b...
2014's hack on Yahoo resulted in 500 million accounts being leaked. Personally identifiable information was stolen by hackers, along with encrypted passwords and security questions. Yahoo publicly declared that the hack was the work of a "state sponsored actor," implying Russia, China, or North K...
Attacker:Russian-backed hackers suspected in the attack Date:June 27, 2017 Losses:Approximately $300 million Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk suffered approximately $300 million in losses after it was hit as part of the global NotPetya attacks. The malware, which exploited the EternalBlue ...
In January 2017, security researchers concluded that hackers caused a power outage in Ukraine during December 2016—one of the country’s coldest months. This was the second time a ‘cyber attack’ had triggered a power outage in the country. Power outage hacks sound scary and bring up the ...
Major data breaches in Southeast Asian countries evidence the region's weaknesses in the areas of cybersecurity and data protection.
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At the end of 2018, hackers had earned more than $42 million for valid results. Hacker globalization provides a literal meaning to “hack the planet.” India and the U.S. remain the top hacker locations, and more than 6 African countries had first-time hacker participation in 2018. The...
Use only white hat techniques and avoid spamminess in all practices. Even if it seems like a no-brainer, some damage is outside of your control. Hackers can manipulate your site's visitors into downloading malware. Even less severe actions like spam attacks on your site can cause you harm...
A shocking $70 million in crypto was stolen from ther CoinEx crypto exchange in September 2023, after numerous private keys for user hot wallets had been accessed by hackers. All in all, $54 million in crypto was stolen via the exploit, with a huge transfer of almost 5,000 Ethereum trigg...