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In Pictures: The worst data breaches (so far)

It’s early but it has been a bad year for personal data exposure already

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Article | 24/05/2013 Microsoft brushes off claim Xbox Live accounts were compromised
Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service.
Article | 22/05/2013 Twitter aims to become safer with two-step sign-in
Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process.
Article | 20/05/2013 Yahoo Japan says 22 million user IDs may have been stolen
Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week.
Article | 10/05/2013 Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud
A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.
Article | 10/05/2013 The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked
Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the pub...

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Article | 16/09/2008 20 amazing, amusing and alarming IT facts
A new report warns that the cost from lost productivity at work related to the new NFL season could add up to US$10.5 billion. And there we were, thin...
Article | 11/09/2008 Data breaches spark hard-drive shredding boom
Thanks to all the fear over data security breaches, a computer recycling operation has morphed into something much bigger - and potentially more lucra...

2012 Data Breach Investigations Report

A study conducted by Verizon RISK Team with cooperation from the Australian Federal Police, Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, Irish Reporting & Information Security Service, Police Central e-Crime Unit and United States Secret Service. This year our DBIR includes more incidents, derived from more contributors, and represents a broader and more diverse geographical scope. The number of compromised records across these incidents skyrocketed back up to 174 million after reaching an all-time low (or high, depending on your point of view) in last year’s report of four million. In fact, 2011 boasts the second-highest data loss total since we started keeping track in 2004. Read this report.