The first quarter of 2020 has been one of the worst in data breach history with over 8 billion records exposed.
Recent cyber security breaches.
According to the website for the yahoo data breach settlement the company s cyber security issues contained in this matter extended from 2012 to 2016.
States and counties to share election data said on wednesday that an unknown party had hacked its internal systems.
Fifth third bank a financial institution with 1 150 branches in 10 states claims a former employee is responsible for a data breach which exposed customers name social security number driver s license information mother s maiden name address phone number date of birth and account numbers.
In may 2019 security magazine reported that canva a graphic design tool website suffered a data breach that affected 139 million users.
In a massive hack several high profile accounts were compromised.
The total number of affected employees and banking clients remains undisclosed.
Balaji n september 20 2020.
This is a list of data breaches using data compiled from various sources including press reports government news releases and mainstream news articles the list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30 000 or more records although many smaller breaches occur continually.
Breaches and incidents september 24 2020 software vendor tyler technologies tells u s.
State of the breach june 2020.
The breach compromised the personal information including social security numbers birth dates addresses and in some cases drivers license numbers of 143 million consumers.
U s charges two iranian hackers for attacking computer systems in the united states europe middle east.
These are the worst hacks cyberattacks and data breaches of 2019.
The data exposed included customer usernames real names email addresses passwords and city and country information.
Elon musk joe biden jeff bezos michael bloomberg kim kardashian west and bill gates were among the accounts pushing out tweets claiming that followers would receive double the money they send to a certain bitcoin address.
A slew of hacks data breaches and attacks tainted the cybersecurity landscape in 2019.
At least 16 billion records including credit card numbers home addresses phone numbers and other highly sensitive information have been exposed through data breaches since 2019.