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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.
May: Indian national Shubham Upadhyay posed as Superintendent of Police and, using social engineering, used a free caller identification app to call up the in-charge of the Kotwali police station, K. K. Gupta, in order to threaten him to get his phone repaired amidst the COVID-19 lockdown. The attempt was foiled.
Zerodium was launched on July 25, 2015 by the founders of Vupen.The company pays bounties for zero-day exploits.A zero-day exploit is a cybersecurity attack that targets security flaws in computer hardware, software or firmware in order to maliciously plant malware, steal data, or damage the program.
Vault 7 is a series of documents that WikiLeaks began to publish on 7 March 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare.
Pegasus had previously come to light in a leak of records from Hacking Team, which indicated the software had been supplied to the government of Panama in 2015. [17] Citizen Lab and Lookout notified Apple's security team, which patched the flaws within ten days and released an update for iOS. [18] A patch for macOS was released six days later. [19]
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In both October 2017 and March 2018, Equifax reported that an additional 2.5 and 2.4 million American consumer records were accessed, respectively, bringing the total to 147.9 million. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Equifax narrowed its estimate for UK consumers affected by the breach to 15.2 million in October 2017, [ 44 ] [ 45 ] of which 693,665 had sensitive ...
The Shadow Brokers (TSB) is a hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016. [1] [2] They published several leaks containing hacking tools, including several zero-day exploits, [1] from the "Equation Group" who are widely suspected to be a branch of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.