Data breaches are happening at a constant pace.
2022
LastPass
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 27 Million Users
Okta
Okta source code was stolen.
Dropbox
Phishing incident stole accounts.
Here is a more detailed list of the hacking incidents that happened this year.
2019
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users
DoorDash
Approximately 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants are affected.
Fortnite
Fortnite had a security vulnerability that let hackers take over accounts.
Georgia Tech
Data breach exposes up to 1.3M Georgia Tech faculty, students
Microsoft
Microsoft email breach gave hackers access to account information for months
WhatsApp flaw let hackers install spyware on cellphones when people made or got calls
First American
Scammers stole over $100 million from Facebook and Google
Canva
Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach, according to the hacker,
Zynga
In September 2019, a password breach of online game company Zynga Inc. was reported affecting approximately 200m users
Google & Facebook
First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records
American Medical Collection Agency
Personal and financial data on some 7.7 million consumers were exposed by a breach
Citrix Systems, Inc
Malicious hackers making off with personal and financial data on company employees, contractors, interns, job candidates and their dependents
Capital one
Personal information of more than 100 million individuals, including Social Security numbers and bank accounts, was compromised in a massive data theft
Rubrik
A server security lapse has exposed a massive database of customer information belonging to Rubrik, an IT security and cloud data management giant.
Dow Jones
The exposed data includes the names, addresses, account information, email addresses, and last four digits of credit card numbers of millions of subscribers
Health alliance plan
More than 120,000 Health Alliance Plan clients' personal and protected medical information may have been compromised in a security breach
2018
My Fitness Pal
Facebook Security Breach Exposes Accounts of 50 Million Users
Exactis
Approximately 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants are affected.
Localbox
Fortnite had a security vulnerability that let hackers take over accounts.
Chegg
The company said that it first learned of the breach on Sept. 19 and, today, plans to start notifying approximately 40 million registered users and regulatory authorities about the incident.
2017
Equifax
Equifax announced it experienced a data breach, which impacted the personal information of approximately 147 million people.
River City Media
Huge database leak reveals 1.37 billion email addresses and exposes illegal spam operation.
MyHeritage
Security breach at MyHeritage website leaks details of over 92 million users.
2016
MySpace
Hacker Tries To Sell 427 Milllion Stolen MySpace Passwords For $2,800.
FriendFinder
FriendFinder Networks has reportedly been hacked, resulting in the leak of of over 412 million accounts
Dailymotion
A hacker extracted 85.2 million unique email addresses and usernames from the company's systems.
Uber
Uber disclosed the breach of 57 million worldwide users — including 4.1 million drivers — almost a year later
Hackers may have used malware to collect more than 32 million Twitter login credentials including email addresses, usernames, and passwords.
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley officials are sending alert notices to approximately 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors following a criminal cyberattack on a system storing their Social Security or bank account numbers
2014
eBay
EBay has come under fire over its handling of the cyberattack, in which hackers accessed personal data of all 145 million users.
Marriott International
Marriott International announced that it is notifying some of its guests today of an incident involving a property system. the company believes that it may have involved for up to approximately 5.2 million guests.
2013
Adobe
The recent data breach at Adobe that exposed user account information and prompted a flurry of password reset emails impacted at least 38 million users.
Yahoo
All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Affected by 2013 Attack.
Target Corp
The stolen information includes names, mailing addresses, phone numbers or email addresses for up to 70 million individuals..
Snapchat
A site called SnapchatDB.info has saved usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts and made the information available for download.
2012
A 2012 data breach that was thought to have exposed 6.5 million hashed passwords for LinkedIn users instead likely impacted more than 117 million accounts.
Dropbox
Popular cloud storage firm Dropbox has been hacked, with over 68m users’ email addresses and passwords leaking on to the internet.
Zappos
The Amazon-owned e-commerce firm has revealed that it was the target of a cyber attack that gained access to its internal network. including the accounts of 24 million of its users.
2011
Sega
The hackers made off with the personal information of Sega’s 1.3 million users. This includes email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth and their encrypted passwords.
Citigroup
Over 360,083 credit card accounts in North America of Citigroup were affected as a result of a compromise of its card account management website in May.
2009
Heartland Payment Systems
The record holder for the largest-ever breach is believed to be a 2008 attack on Heartland Payment Systems (HPY), in which an estimated 130 million customer accounts were compromised.
Virginia Health Professions
Hackers broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacist. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records.
Hannaford Bros. Chain
The breach saw 4.2 million credit card numbers taken, and more than 1,800 of those numbers have been reported as having been used.
2008
Bank of NY Mellon
The bank says that another 8 million customers were affected by the breach, bringing the total figure to 12.5 million, which may make it the largest data breach of the year.
2007
TJ Maxx-TJX
A hacker or hackers stole data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards of shoppers at off-price retailers including T.J. Maxx and Marshalls in a case believed to be the largest such breach of consumer information.
Certegy
FIS initially said about 2.3 million records may have been compromised, but in filings with the SEC about two weeks later, the company increased that number to as many as 8.5 million.
TD Ameritrade
Online trading company TD Ameritrade alerted more than 6 million customers Friday that a security breach occurred with its client information database.
2006
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
The agency previously said that all 26.5 million people affected by the data theft were veterans and their spouses. The data include Social Security numbers and disability ratings.
2005
Bank of America
Bank of America Corp. has lost computer data tapes containing personal information on up to 1.2 million federal employees, including some members of the U.S. Senate.