Over the last 7 years, there have been over 50 data breaches across the globe with at least 1 million records affected per data breach. We've compiled a list of 53 (and growing) data breaches from major organizations including eBay, AOL, Facebook, Experian, Evernote and Target. A recent Ponemon Institute study estimates that nearly 110 million U.S adults have had their personal data compromised in the last 12 months. Organizations across the globe have to start asking WHEN they will breached, not IF.
Organization | Date Breach Was Publically Known |
Records Affected |
JPMorgan Chase | 10/02/14 | 76,000,000 |
Viator | 9/02/14 | 1,400,000 |
Home Depot | 9/02/14 | 56,000,000 |
UPS | 7/31/14 | 100,000 |
PF Changs | 6/13/14 | 7,000,000 |
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services | 5/22/14 | 1,300,000 |
eBay | 5/21/14 | 145,000,000 |
Orange (Telecom) | 5/7/14 | 1,300,000 |
AOL | 4/28/14 | 2,000,000 |
Michael's Stores, Aaron Brothers | 4/17/14 | 3,000,000 |
Mumsnet Limited | 4/9/14 | 1,500,000 |
Experian | 4/3/14 | 200,000,000 |
City of Verden | 4/3/14 | 18,000,000 |
Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover | 3/30/14 | 7,000,000 |
Naver | 3/26/14 | 25,000,000 |
Korea Telecom | 3/6/14 | 12,000,000 |
Korean Medical and Dental Associations | 2/27/14 | 17,000,000 |
Forbes | 2/13/14 | 1,071,963 |
Internet Country Germany | 1/22/14 | 16,000,000 |
Korea Credit Bureau | 1/20/14 | 104,000,000 |
Neiman Marcus | 1/10/14 | 1,100,000 |
Snapchat | 1/1/14 | 4,600,000 |
Maricopa County Community College District | 12/17/13 | 2,490,000 |
Country's Supreme Election Committee (YSK) | 12/16/13 | 54,000,000 |
Target | 12/13/13 | 110,000,000 |
Cupid Media | 11/20/13 | 42,000,000 |
SuperValu, loyaltybuild | 11/12/13 | 1,500,000 |
YTO Express | 10/22/13 | 6,000,000 |
Adobe Systems, Inc | 10/3/13 | 152,000,000 |
NW3C | 10/1/13 | 2,659,000 |
Vodafone | 9/12/13 | 2,000,000 |
Tango | 7/20/13 | 1,000,000 |
Ubuntu Forums | 7/20/13 | 1,820,000 |
Harbor Freight Tools | 7/19/13 | 2,400,000 |
Advocate Health Care | 7/18/13 | 4,000,000 |
Truecaller | 7/5/13 | 1,000,000 |
6/21/13 | 6,000,000 | |
Drupal.org | 5/29/13 | 1,000,000 |
Groupon Taiwan | 5/19/13 | 4,100,000 |
Yahoo Japan | 5/17/13 | 22,000,000 |
Living Social | 4/26/13 | 50,000,000 |
Cascade Medical Center | 4/19/13 | 1,000,000 |
Schnucks | 4/15/13 | 2,400,000 |
Iranian Bank | 4/14/12 | 3,000,000 |
The Washington State Administrative Office | 4/14/13 | 1,160,000 |
MTV Taiwan | 3/17/13 | 1,107,286 |
Evernote | 3/2/13 | 50,000,000 |
Blizzard | 8/9/12 | 14,000,000 |
Zappos | 1/15/12 | 24,000,000 |
Tianya | 12/25/11 | 28,000,000 |
Steam | 11/10/11 | 35,000,000 |
Sony PSN | 4/26/11 | 77,000,000 |
Health Net | 3/14/11 | 1,900,000 |
RockYou | 12/14/09 | 32,000,000 |
Heartland | 1/19/09 | 130,000,000 |
Monster.com | 8/21/07 | 1,600,000 |
T.J. Maxx | 1/17/07 | 94,000,000 |