Biggest data breaches in history
You entrust multiple organizations with your personal data every day, but given the number of data breaches that are reported each year, the odds are that your information has fallen into the wrong hands at some point. We reveal the biggest data breaches in history.
In 2005, AOL suffered a data breach involving 92 million email addresses and screen names after an ex-employee stole the list. While astronomical, this data breach figure pales in comparison to the more recent breaches of 10.88 billion CAM4 records, 5 billion Cognyte records (which, ironically, were from previous data breach victims), and 3 billion Yahoo user accounts (discovered in 2016).
Based on data breaches affecting over 10m records, over 50bn records have been impacted by the biggest US data breaches since 2005. Some o...
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