Data breach where staff and student records were stolen @ Blackbaud Inc. and University of York

In July 2020, the university disclosed that they had launched an investigation after a ransomware attack occurred in May 2020 at the third party provider of their customer relationship management system. Personal details of students, staff and alumni ...

20 years of data stolen from online from internet hook-up destination @ Adultfriendfinder.com and 5 more...

Considered the biggest hack of 2016. The adult-themed social network was breached in October 2016 and hackers were able to collect 20 years of data on six breached databases. The breached information included names, email addresses and passwor...

77 million users data exposed by gaming company @ Daybreak Game Company LLC and 4 more...

Considered the largest data breach in history when news became public in 2011. In April 2011, the company’s disastrous systems intrusion and data breach exposed 77 million customer records globally including revealing credit card numbers for a smal...

Breach of user data on its online storytelling platform @ Wattpad Corp.

In July 2020, the company disclosed that they had been the target of a data breach, initially stating that no financial information, private messages or phone numbers were exposed. Shortly afterwards the company revealed an incident update on a suppor...

Cybersecurity breach went unnoticed for two years and impacted patient data @ Cano Health, LLC

In June 2020, the company disclosed they had suffered a data breach after three employee email accounts were accessed by an unknown perpetrator which had been discovered in April 2020 but had been ongoing since May 2018. The compromised email acc...

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