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In October 2023, Wired reported that a sample of data points from 23andMe accounts were exposed on BreachForums, a black-hat hacking crime forum. [1]23andMe confirmed to TechCrunch that because of an opt-in feature that allows DNA-related relatives to contact each other, the true number of people exposed was 6.9 million, nearly half of 23andMe’s 14 million reported customers.
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
On June 3, the Government of Nova Scotia estimated that as many as 100,000 present and past employees were impacted by the breach. [3]On June 5, various organizations in the United Kingdom, including the BBC, British Airways, Boots, Aer Lingus, and payroll service Zellis were breached. [4]
According to cybersecurity researcher Troy Hunt, at least 1.5 million victims were affected by the breaches. Many years later Latvia-based independent news website Meduza used the content of KM.RU's data breach to pinpoint the identity of a person who has been harassing female chess players of various countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan and ...
Data breaches reported in the United States by year, 2005–2023 Thousands of data records are stolen from individuals every day. [ 9 ] According to a 2020 estimate, 55 percent of data breaches were caused by organized crime , 10 percent by system administrators , 10 percent by end users such as customers or employees, and 10 percent by states ...
Earlier this month, the FCC said AT&T had agreed to pay $13 million to resolve an investigation over a data breach of a cloud vendor in January 2023 that impacted 8.9 million AT&T wireless customers.
Data breaches reported in the United States by year, 2005–2023. The first reported data breach occurred on 5 April 2002 [8] when 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center. [9]
In October 2023 Rhysida, a hacker group, attacked the online information systems of the British Library. They demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoin, at the time around £596,000, to restore services and return the stolen data. When the British Library did not acquiesce to the attempt, Rhysida publicly released approximately 600GB of leaked material ...