Several major players have been affected by hacks and data leaks in recent years, such as AT&T Vendor, T-Mobile, JD Sports, MyDeal, Dropbox, Flagstar bank, and eBay. However, some of the most notorious hacks in history include the Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability, the First American Financial Corp Data Leak, the Quora Data Breach, the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, the UCLA Data Breach, the Target Data Breach, the Twitter Breach, and the Exactis data breach. These hacks exploited vulnerabilities in the systems of the affected companies, leading to the exposure of sensitive data and private information. The Capital One breach in 2019 affected 100 million US and 6 million Canadian consumers due to misconfigured firewalls used by Capital One. The Yahoo hacks in 2013 and 2014 resulted in the compromise of over one billion accounts, the largest hack of a single entity in the history of the internet, due to vulnerable and outdated components. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021 brought fuel supply along the east coast to a halt for a week and caused panic buying among retail consumers due to a lack of proper security controls and protocols and a lack of preparedness and response planning by the company. The JBS ransomware attack in 2021 affected the beef and pork slaughterhouses in North America and Australia, causing a standstill and a payment of USD 11 million ransom, due to flaws in the system that allowed the attackers to get in. The Equifax data breach in 2017 resulted in attackers accessing sensitive personal information of over 143 million customers due to several security lapses and unpatched vulnerabilities in the company’s systems.
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Source: Securityboulevard