A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". Attackers have a variety of motives...

This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream...

"beyond some initial enquiries" and that "no significant breaches" took place. Information about the data misuse was disclosed in 2018 by Christopher Wylie,...

behind the breach as 25-year-old Aleksanteri Julius Kivimäki. Kivimäki was charged in absentia at Helsinki District Court for aggravated data breach, aggravated...

to two of the largest data breaches on record. Neither breach was revealed publicly until September 2016. The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers...

Data breach incidences in India were the second highest globally in 2018, according to a report by digital security firm Gemalto. With over 690 million...

whose data was breached. The released data included records of nearly $1,000 of transactions on a credit card account in his name. The news of the data release...

The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017 at the American credit bureau Equifax. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with...

Security breach notification laws or data breach notification laws are laws that require individuals or entities affected by a data breach, unauthorized...

The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained...

A wave of cyberattacks and data breaches began in June 2023 after a vulnerability was discovered in MOVEit, a managed file transfer software. MOVEit is...

September 2022, Australian telecommunications company Optus suffered a data breach that affected up to 10 million current and former customers comprising...

In summer 2018, a data breach affected almost 500,000 customers of British Airways, of which almost 250,000 had their names, addresses, credit card numbers...

The Evide data breach was a data breach caused by ransomware in Northern Ireland. Evide is a company based in Derry which specialises in data storage and...

telecommunications provider TalkTalk experienced a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. As a consequence, personal and banking details of around 160,000 customers...

EssilorLuxottica confirm that it had suffered a data breach two years earlier in 2021; upon noticing the breach, the company immediately alerted the FBI and...

The 2018 Google data breach was a major data privacy scandal in which the Google+ API exposed the private data of over five hundred thousand users. Google+...

2014 to November 1, 2014. The company had a data breach in September 2014. One major reason for the data breach was the practice of entering credit card...

The Anthem medical data breach was a medical data breach of information held by Elevance Health, known at that time as Anthem Inc. On February 4, 2015...

rate of such breaches has increased over time, with 176 million records breached by the end of 2017. There have been 245 data breaches of 10,000 or more...

(December 27, 2013). "Target confirms PIN data was stolen in breach". CNNMoney.com. Retrieved 2013-12-28. "Target: Breach affected millions more customers -...

2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach was a cyberattack against American bank JPMorgan Chase that is believed to have compromised data associated with over...

Ireland suffered two data breaches in 2023. On 8 August 2023 the PSNI announced that there had been an accidental data breach caused by data being mistakenly...

The 2018 SingHealth data breach was a data breach incident initiated by unidentified state actors, which happened between 27 June and 4 July 2018. During...

May 2019, Canva experienced a data breach in which the data of roughly 139 million users was hacked. The exposed data included real names of users, usernames...

liability or penalties for breach of rights, and miscellaneous final provisions. Recital 4 proclaims that ‘processing of personal data should be designed to...

2022. Like its predecessor, BreachForums allows for the discussion of various hacking topics and distributed data breaches, pornography, hacking tools...

reported the data breach to Air India in around February 2021. The data breach involved all information which was registered in the SITA data processor between...

source code and customer data security breach". BBC. October 4, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2014. "Adobe accounts hacked, data exposed for 2.9 million customers...

United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches. The cyberattack and data breach were reported to be among the worst cyber-espionage...