Recent Cyber Security Breaches
Balaji n september 20 2020.
Recent cyber security breaches. But the information gets more specific and says data breaches involving stolen information occurred from 2013 and 2016 while so called data security intrusions where an infiltration happened without those responsible taking data happened from at least january april 2012. U s charges two iranian hackers for attacking computer systems in the united states europe middle east. The breach compromised the personal information including social security numbers birth dates addresses and in some cases drivers license numbers of 143 million consumers. Recently the us authorities have charged two iranian nationals for carrying out cyberattacks for personal financial gains and benefits of the government.
In a massive hack several high profile accounts were compromised. The data exposed included customer usernames real names email addresses passwords and city and country information. Elon musk joe biden jeff bezos michael bloomberg kim kardashian west and bill gates were among the accounts pushing out tweets claiming that followers would receive double the money they send to a certain bitcoin address. States and counties to share election data said on wednesday that an unknown party had hacked its internal systems.
Fifth third bank a financial institution with 1 150 branches in 10 states claims a former employee is responsible for a data breach which exposed customers name social security number driver s license information mother s maiden name address phone number date of birth and account numbers. Local government clients it was hacked tyler technologies tyl n whose products are used by u s. According to the website for the yahoo data breach settlement the company s cyber security issues contained in this matter extended from 2012 to 2016. Breaches and incidents september 24 2020 software vendor tyler technologies tells u s.
These are the worst hacks cyberattacks and data breaches of 2019. State of the breach june 2020. The first quarter of 2020 has been one of the worst in data breach history with over 8 billion records exposed. This is a list of data breaches using data compiled from various sources including press reports government news releases and mainstream news articles the list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30 000 or more records although many smaller breaches occur continually.
The total number of affected employees and banking clients remains undisclosed.