Mind-bowing Data Breaches that shook the world
1. Yahoo
Date: 2013-14
Impact: 3 billion user accounts
2. Marriott International
Date: 2014-18
Impact: 500 million customers
3. Adult Friend Finder
Date: October 2016
Impact: More than 412.2 million accounts
4. eBay
Date: May 2014
Impact: 145 million users compromised
5. Equifax
Date: July 29 2017
Impact: Personal information (including Social Security Numbers, birth dates, addresses, and in some cases drivers' license numbers) of 143 million consumers; 209,000 consumers also had their credit card data exposed
6. Heartland Payment Systems
Date: March 2008
Impact: 134 million credit cards exposed through SQL injection to install spyware on Heartland's data systems.
7. Target Stores
Date: December 2013
Impact: Credit/debit card information and/or contact information of up to 110 million people compromised.
8. TJX Companies, Inc.
Date: December 2006
Impact: 94 million credit cards exposed.
9. Uber
Date: Late 2016
Impact: Personal information of 57 million Uber users and 600,000 drivers exposed.
10. JP Morgan Chase
Date: July 2014
Impact: 76 million households and 7 million small businesses
11. US Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Date: 2012-14
Impact: Personal information of 22 million current and former federal employees
12. Sony's PlayStation Network
Date: April 20, 2011
Impact: 77 million PlayStation Network accounts hacked; estimated losses of $171 million while the site was down for a month.
13. Anthem
Date: February 2015
Impact: Theft of personal information on up to 78.8 million current and former customers.
14. RSA Security
Date: March 2011
Impact: Possibly 40 million employee records stolen.
15. Stuxnet
Date: Sometime in 2010, but origins date to 2005
Impact: Meant to attack Iran's nuclear power program, but will also serve as a template for real-world intrusion and service disruption of power grids, water supplies or public transportation systems.
16. VeriSign
Date: Throughout 2010
Impact: Undisclosed information stolen
17. Home Depot
Date: September 2014
Impact: Theft of credit/debit card information of 56 million customers.
18. Adobe
Date: October 2013
Impact: 38 million user records
Compiled by
Srini