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The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the number of records is still unknown are also listed. In addition, the various methods used in the breaches are listed, with hacking being the most common.
The 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia were a series of cyberattacks that began on 27 April 2007 and targeted websites of Estonian organizations, including Estonian parliament, banks, ministries, newspapers, and broadcasters, amid the country's disagreement with Russia about the relocation of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era grave marker, as well as war graves in Tallinn.
Uber's GitHub account was accessed through Amazon's cloud-based service. Uber paid the hackers $100,000 for assurances the data was destroyed. [105] December 2016: Yahoo! data breaches reported and affected more than 1 billion users. The data leakage includes user names, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted or unencrypted security ...
A vulnerability in Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service left several thousand customers susceptible to cyberattacks.
Yahoo! – in 2012, hackers posted login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts, [21] doing so again in January 2013 [22] and in January 2014. [23] Adobe – in 2013, hackers obtained access to Adobe's networks and stole user information and downloaded the source code for some of Adobe programs. [24] It attacked 150 million customers. [24]
The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [3] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.
Rafay Baloch (born 5 February 1993) is a Pakistani ethical hacker and security researcher. He has been featured and known by both national and international media and publications [1] [2] like Forbes, [3] BBC, [4] The Wall Street Journal, [5] The Express Tribune [1] and TechCrunch. [6]
The cyberattacks or invasions were led by hackers associated with China’s People’s Liberation Army, and compromised over 20 critical entities in the past year, including a water utility in ...