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Epic Fail: Top Data Breaches

1. 143,000,000Compromised Accounts

   

   Equifax Data Breach July 2017 - 143,000,000 Accounts

   In early September 2017, Equifax, one of the three nationwide credit reporting bureaus, announced that as many as 143 million Americans had been compromised after a cybersecurity breach that allowed access to sensitive information.

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2. 500,000,000Compromised Accounts

   

   Yahoo! Late 2014 - 500,000,000 Accounts

   Yahoo! announced on September 22, 2016 that in 2014 their server was hacked and 500 million user accounts were compromised. The hacker gained access to user names, email addresses and passwords, telephone numbers, and dates of birth.

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3. 724,000Compromised Accounts

   

   Internal Revenue Service May 2015 - 724,000 Accounts

   In May 2015, hackers flooded the tax agency’s online “get transcript” tool. After an extensive, nine-month review of the incident, the IRS revealed that approximately 724,000 taxpayer records were accessed, which were then used to claim refunds conservatively totaling more than $50 million.

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4. 80,000,000Compromised Accounts

   

   Anthem February 2015 - 80,000,000 Accounts

   In February 2015, Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the U.S., revealed that its customer database had been breached. Stolen data included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and employment histories.

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5. 56,000,000Compromised Accounts

   

   Home Depot 2014 - 56,000,000 Accounts

   In 2014, the same Russian hacker organization that hit Target the year prior breached Home Depot's credit card system and gained access to 56MM credit and debit card numbers and pins using a sophisticated malware software that went undetected by Home Depot for many months.

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