145 million users exposed by phishing aimed at employees of online marketplace @ eBay Inc.

In 2014, this event was one of the biggest hacks. The online auction giant disclosed the attack in May 2014 stating that it exposed names, addresses, dates of birth and encrypted passwords of 145 million users. Financial information which was stored...

Big four accounting firm suffers client data exposure @ Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

In September 2017, one of the big four global accountancy firms and also one of the biggest names in cyber security consulting (Gartner’s security consultancy of the year in 2016) disclosed that they had been the victim of a cyber attack which comprom...

1.1 million customer credit card details stolen from US retailer @ Neiman Marcus

In January 2014, the retail company disclosed they had suffered a breach where hackers accessed the debit and credit card information of customers who shopped between 16th July to 30th October 2013. The breach occurred when malicious software was inst...

117 million users breached on professional networking site @ LinkedIn Corporation

In 2012, 73% of their customers' password were stolen from the largest professional social networking site, impacting over 117 million user accounts. Storage of the passwords was not particularly secure, resulting in security researchers being able...

Data exposed by intrusion into hotel reservations system @ Sabre Corporation and 2 more...

In May 2017, a tech company that provides reservation system services for more than 36,000 properties, revealed a breach that allowed hotel customer payment information to be compromised. The unauthorized access was shut off and the company did no...

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