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...

"beyond some initial enquiries" and that "no significant breaches" took place. Information about the data misuse was disclosed in 2018 by Christopher Wylie,...

to two of the largest data breaches on record. Neither breach was revealed publicly until September 2016. The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers...

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

September 2022, Australian telecommunications company Optus suffered a data breach that affected up to 10 million current and former customers comprising...