These are the biggest data breaches of the 21st century
These are the biggest data breaches of the 21st century
Data breach is such a serious matter that it affects millions of people at once. Data breach means keeping public data safe, stealing it, using it without permission, or violating data security rules.
Most of the data hackers are hackers. Sometimes responsible bodies, organizations, business establishments, online based businesses are also found to have breached data.
A few days ago, Amazon, the world’s largest online shopping platform, was fined more than Rs 100 billion for breaching data in violation of European law.
Every day, hackers are trying to gain unauthorized access to various websites and apps to break data. Every day in the world, hackers are breaking the data.
Every day countries around the world are paying ransom to hackers. Today we are going to introduce you to the ten most famous big data breaches of the 21st century.
1. Yahoo
In August 2013, Yahoo’s biggest data breach occurred. Some hacking group had affected three billion accounts.
When Yahoo was being taken over by Verizon, hackers suddenly broke the data. Even after this data breach, an agreement was reached between Yahoo and Verizon, but at a very low price.
Verizon has committed itself to the protection of privacy and security. Even though the hackers gained access to the account, the plain text password, payment card details and bank data were not stolen.
2. Alibaba
Alibaba’s data breach took place in 2019. This data impressed a large number of customers in Breach. It was hacked by Alibaba site creator, who hacked customer details, usernames and mobile numbers using his own crawler software.
He was collecting this information for his own use and did not sell it on the black market. He was sentenced to three years in prison for the same crime. The hack affected the data of 1.1 billion users.
3. Likandin
This year, there was a data hacking incident at Likandin. 700 million, or about 90 percent of users were affected.
A hacker named ‘Good User’ had hacked the API of the website. He then threatened to sell all 700 million databases. No sensitive or personal information has been leaked in this hack. The ‘bad user’ had received email address, contact number and other details.
4. sina vibo
It is the largest social in China. Sina Vibo has about 600 million users. This social movement was attacked in March 2020. The hack affected 538 million accounts.
The hackers attacked parts of the dataset and hacked information such as real name, site username, link, address and contact number.
The hackers sold the details on the Dark Web for 250. China’s Ministry of Communications and Information had instructed Weibo to increase data security.
5. Facebook
The data breach incident on Facebook took place in April 2019. At that time, two datasets of Facebook were made public.
It revealed the Facebook-based details, contact numbers, account names and Facebook IDs of 530 million users.
Two years after the hack, the data was posted for free. Also, these details were posted on the Dark Web. The details also included the email addresses of some users.
6. Marriott International (Starwood)
Hotel Marriott International said the sensitive information of 500 million Starwood users was hacked in 2018. Marriott’s various investigations have found that hackers have been copying and encrypting data on the Starwood network since 2014 with unauthorized access.
In 2018, Marriott managed to decrypt the data. The data was discovered in the Starwood Guest database.
It contained hotel customer name, email address, address, contact number, passport number, account details, date of birth, arrival and departure information, reservation date and communication details.
The company had to pay around ४ 18.4 million in fines. The attack is believed to have been carried out by a Chinese group.
7. Yahoo
Yahoo was attacked again in 2014. In this hack, the state-sponsored actors hacked the accounts of 500 million users and stole information like name, email address, date of birth, password.
Yahoo addressed the issue only after the stolen database went public on the black market in 2016.
8. Adult Friend Finder
This social network was attacked in 2016. Six of the 20 databases in the network have been hacked by hackers.
It contained unethical websites such as Penthouse.com and Stripshow.com with hookups and adult content, leaving out the names, email addresses and passwords of 414 million users.
This had a devastating effect on the personal lives of many. The passwords were made public in a hash that could be easily viewed using Liquidsource.com.
9. my space
MySpace was attacked in 2013. Three years later, in 2016, data on 360 million users was leaked.
This data was put up for sale on Liquidsource.com and the Dark Web. The hackers demanded six bitcoins at the time, which amounted to about डलर 3,000.
The hacked data included email addresses, usernames and passwords. The company immediately removed those accounts to make them safer.
10. netize
Netizens were attacked in 2015, affecting the accounts of about 235 million users. Netiz provides mailbox service.
In the hack, a vendor called Double Flag sold the email addresses and plaintext passwords of 235 million users on the Dark Web.
The company claimed that there was no data breach until later, but when the official user’s data came on the Dark Web, it was all open.
(In collaboration with agencies)
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