123 million US household's data exposed by data analytics company @ Alteryx and Experian plc

In December 2017, the data analytics firm was discovered to be inadequately protecting the personal information of over 120 million American households. The company had purchased this data from a credit reporting agency and stored the data in an open ...

'IT specialist' sub-contractor steals 2 million customer records from telecommunications company @ Vodafone Germany and Vodafone Group Plc.

Described as one of the largest cases of personal data thefts for German customers. In 2013, an insider threat materialised at Germany's second largest telecommunications company affecting 2 million customers. Criminal proceedings followed but ...

Payment card data exposed at hotel group @ InterContinental Hotels & Resort

In February 2017, the hotel group announced a data breach affecting 12 of its properties. Malware was found on servers which processed payments made at on-site restaurants and bars. Stolen data included cardholder names, card numbers, expiration dates...

Unauthorized party accessed company's data housed in a supplier's server exposing information of 15 million customers @ Experian plc and 2 more...

Around 15 million people who applied for wireless service in the prior 3 years had their private information breached exposing names, addresses, birth dates and social security numbers through a security gap in one of the suppliers' subsidiaries. A...

Large-scale data breach affects 218 million gamers @ Zynga Inc.

In September 2019, the mobile game producer announced that a hacker had accessed account log-in information for its users. In addition to the log-in credentials, the hacker accessed usernames, email addresses, log-in IDs, some Facebook IDs, some phone...

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