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Hackers have become so sophisticated that nearly 4 billion records have been stolen from people in the last decade alone. Here are the 10 biggest data breaches of the 2010s.
Hackers have become so sophisticated that nearly 4 billion records have been stolen from people in the last decade alone. Here are the 10 biggest data breaches of the 2010s.
Oct 18, 2019, 20:09 IST
10. Target was subject to a data breach in 2013 that exposed 40 million credit and debit card accounts.
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9. A 2017 data breach targeted Equifax, impacting as many as 143 million users.
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8. A 2014 cyber attack on eBay stole login credentials of up to 145 million users.
7. An Under Armour data breach affected 150 million users of the store's mobile app in 2018.
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6. As many as 152 million records were stolen from Adobe in a 2013 data breach.
5. A group of Eastern European hackers stole over 160 million records from companies ranging from Nasdaq to 7-Eleven before being stopped by authorities in 2013.
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4. A 2016 data breach compromised more than 412 million accounts from a network of adult-oriented networking sites.
3. Hackers broke into Marriott's reservation system in 2018, accessing 500 million guests' private information.
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2. More than 540 million Facebook users' data was up for grabs on unprotected servers until April 2019.
1. 885 million sensitive financial records were left exposed by First American on public servers where anyone could access them until May 2019.