Truecaller, developed by True Software Scandinavia AB, denied any breach of their servers. The company stated that their database was secure and suggested that some malicious users might have abused their accounts to collect phone numbers, rather than a direct breach of the system. They emphasized...
June 2010: AT&T Data Breach In June 2010, a hacker group called Goatse Security exploited a security flaw in the AT&T mobile network. This compromised the email addresses of over 114,000 iPad users. AT&T took responsibility and explained the system vulnerability that caused this Apple data breac...
The records of 1.1 billion Indian citizens were exposed after a breach of Aadhaar, the country's government ID database. While it's not mandatory for citizens to register with the database, it is required for those who want access to certain government resources or assistance. The ...
This article from The New York Times discusses strategies for minimizing the risk of a data breach in light of the major breaches impacting some of the world’s largest companies in recent history. One suggestion, for instance, is minimizing or eliminating the unnecessary storage of data. “Comp...
Nonetheless, this remains one of the largest data breaches of this type in history. 3. Aadhaar Data Breach Date: March 2018 Impact: 1.1 billion people In March of 2018, it became public that the personal details of more than a billion citizens in India stored in the world’s largest ...
Some of the biggest data compromise events in history had long-lasting effects on the organizations that suffered them. These data breach examples include: Yahoo In 2016, internet giant Yahoo revealed that it had suffered two data breaches in 2013 and 2014. The attacks, which affected up to1.5...
FunkSec launched its data leak site (DLS) in December 2024 to "centralize" their ransomware operations, highlighting breach announcements, a custom tool to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and a bespoke ransomware as part of a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. A ...
Breaking Down the Largest Data Breach in History: Covered Entities Must Comply with the HIPAA Privacy and Security RulesSTRAUSS, LORI J.Journal of Health Care Compliance
On the heels of July's news that some 100 million U.S. credit card customers and applicants of Capital One had personal information hacked, here's a look at five of the biggest data breaches in history.
However, it’s hard to take Troia’s stories at face value since he downplayed the severity of the threat, has a murky history with the hacker community, and, according to Krebs on Security,“previously staged a hack against his own site.” How the breach happened Matt Keil, Director of...