A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". Attackers have a variety of motives...

This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream...

behind the breach as 25-year-old Aleksanteri Julius Kivimäki. Kivimäki was charged in absentia at Helsinki District Court for aggravated data breach, aggravated...

and that "no significant breaches" took place. In interviews with The Guardian and The New York Times, information about the data misuse was disclosed in...

whose data was breached. The released data included records of nearly $1,000 of transactions on a credit card account in his name. The news of the data release...

Data breach incidences in India were the second highest globally in 2018, according to a report by digital security firm Gemalto. With over 690 million...

The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017 at the American credit bureau Equifax. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with...

the largest data breaches on record. Although Yahoo was aware, neither breach was revealed publicly until September 2016. The 2013 data breach occurred on...

The stolen data contains records for people in the US, UK, and Canada. National Public Data confirmed on August 16, 2024, there was a breach originating...

The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained...