Which are the top 10 biggest data breaches in the last year?
The following are some of the top 10 biggest data breaches in the last year (from August 2020 to August 2021):
1. SolarWinds:
– Date: Discovered in December 2020.
– Impact: Compromised multiple US government agencies and private companies, including Microsoft, and potentially exposed sensitive data.
2. Facebook:
– Date: April 2021.
– Impact: Personal information of over 533 million Facebook users leaked online, including phone numbers, email addresses, and other details.
3. Ubiquiti Inc.:
– Date: January 2021.
– Impact: Unauthorized access to customer information, including names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords.
4. Juspay:
– Date: August 2020.
– Impact: Indian payment gateway, Juspay, suffered a breach that exposed customer details, card information, and more.
5. Capcom:
– Date: November 2020.
– Impact: Gaming giant Capcom faced a ransomware attack that resulted in a massive data breach, including customer data and internal files.
6. Marriott International:
– Date: Early 2020 (uncovered in March).
– Impact: Personal information of over 5 million guests exposed due to a vulnerability in their loyalty application.
7. Air India:
– Date: May 2021.
– Impact: Personal data of approximately 4.5 million Air India passengers leaked, including passport details and credit card information.
8. CD Projekt Red:
– Date: February 2021.
– Impact: Cyberattack on the game developer, CD Projekt Red, resulted in a data breach including employee and user data.
9. Mimecast:
– Date: January 2021.
– Impact: Mimecast, an email security company, suffered a cyberattack that compromised a digital certificate used to authenticate data sent between systems.
10. Accellion:
– Date: January 2021.
– Impact: Accellion, a file transfer service, experienced a cyberattack that exposed data from numerous organizations and their customers.
Please note that the impact and details of some breaches may change with time as new information becomes available.