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32 Date Breaches Larger than Sony’s in the past year

This article talks about the data breaches that happened last year. Sony suffered a huge loss and a large volume of their data leaked which includes their internal documents with their employee’s information. In addition to that, information about the actors and copies of several unreleased movies which cause them a huge loss because their movies were refused to play in so many theatres.

Apparently, that breach was not even within the top 30 breaches that happened last year. Sony breach was ranked at 33^rd in terms of number of records breached. EBay was in number one who suffered the largest data breach in terms of records with more than 150 million records compromised. J.P Morgan chase ranked second while losing 76 million records. Home Depot, Community Health Systems, Michaels Stores, Texas Health and Human Services, Neiman Marcus, Goodwill industries international, Oregon Employment Department, work source Oregon, U. S. Postal Service were within the top ten business who suffered a huge loss data and valuable information. Hacking or malware was the type of breach used to steal the data of these organizations.

References:

McCarthy, K. (2015, January 8). 32 Data Breaches Larger Than Sony’s in the Past Year. Retrieved May 7, 2015 from

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kyle-mccarthy/32-data-breaches-larger-t_b_6427010.html