TYPE OF FRAUD

DATA BREACHES
From the United States military to the Filipino government, data breaches can affect companies, Hack
public-sector agencies and organisations of all types. This infographic charts some of the most Insider job
notable hacks in recent history, how they happened and how many records were breached Leak
Lost/stolen media

COMPANY/RECORDS BREACHED YEAR ORGANISATION COMPANY/RECORDS BREACHED

TUMBLR
02 DAILYMOTION 01 RIVER CITY MEDIA 17
85.2M 65M
1.37BN
E-mail addresses and usernames sto- Personal information from user ac-
Faulty backup leads to a leaked da- counts was stolen and put up for
len, some with associated passwords
tabase of names and e-mail, IP and sale on the dark web; the hack was
physical addresses not revealed until 2016
03 FRIEND FINDER NETWORKS
412.2M

Customer details exposed from six 18 EVERNOTE

adult-only networks; the breach 50M
comprised 20 years of historical cus-
2017
Company resets passwords of every
tomer data, including some who had single user after hackers gained ac-
deleted their accounts cess to usernames, e-mail addresses
and encrypted passwords

04 MYSPACE
360M
19 LIVINGSOCIAL
User login data stolen and sold on an 50M
online hacker forum; only accounts
Hackers steal login credentials of
created before 2013 were affected
user information from the majority of
02 the websites customers

05 VK
100.5M
COURT VENTURES
20
Russian social network hacked and 03 200M
login credentials sold on the dark web
WEB/ Vietnamese national poses as client
and steals personal, financial and
TECHNOLOGY social security data of millions of
06 ANTHEM Americans
80M
2016
Personal information and social secu- 04
rity numbers of customers who had
been enrolled since 2004 stolen 21 MISCELLANEOUS
160M

05 Hacking ring steals credit and debit

07 COMELEC (PHILIPPINES) 06
card numbers from banks, payment
55M processors and retail chains over
07 eight years
Election information stolen by Anony- 08
mous and posted online to highlight
vulnerabilities in the voting system
09
22 LINKEDIN
2015 117M
TURKISH GOVERNMENT 10 User credentials hacked and sold on
08
49.6M the dark web
Personal information and identifica- 11 YAHOO!
tion numbers of Turkish citizens leaked 500M
online in a politically motivated hack
Alleged state-sponsored attackers 23 DROPBOX
68.7M
steal customers personal information
and passwords; only disclosed in 2016 Users e-mail addresses and pass-
09 DEEP ROOT ANALYTICS 2014 words were stolen in 2012, and then
198M leaked on hacker trading sites in 2016
Voter information accidentally 12
stored on publicly accessible server
by a firm working for the Republican 13 24 SONY PLAYSTATION
National Committee 77M
14
15 Week-long network outage occurs
after an illegal and unauthorised
10 SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES 16 YAHOO!
person obtains gamers personal in-
70M formation
1BN
Recordings of phone calls from
inmates were leaked, possibly by Alleged state-sponsored attackers
steal customers personal information
an internal employee, in a massive 25 HEARTLAND
breach of attorney-client privilege and passwords; only disclosed in 2016 130M
SOCIAL
Hackers steal the digital information
MEDIA encoded on to magnetic strips of
eBAY 2013 credit and debit cards, allowing them
12
145M to fashion counterfeits
User records copied after hackers ob-
tain login details from employees
26 US MILITARY
76M

13 J.P. MORGAN CHASE 17

The National Archives and Records
76M Administration sent a defective, un-
18
encrypted hard drive for repair with-
Names, phone numbers, e-mail and 19 out first destroying the data which
physical addresses captured by FINANCIAL included veterans social security
hackers; the bank claims no finan-
20 numbers dating back
cial information was compromised
to 1972

2012 21
14
TARGET 27 TK/TJ MAXX
70M RETAIL 94M
22 Hackers breach retailers Minnesota
Hackers installed software on tills in
store over Thanksgiving to steal cus- 23 store wi-fi to steal credit and debit
card information
tomers credit and debit card data MISC
2011 24

15
HOME DEPOT
2009
25 GOVERNMENT 28
AOL
56M 92M
26
Malware on the retailers point-of-
HEALTHCARE Former software engineer sells cus-
sale systems compomised custom- 2007 27
GAMING
tomer information to spammers who
ers credit and debit card details sent out billions of e-mails marketing penile enhancement products

over a five-month period 2004 28 MILITARY

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