In October 2017, Disqus, the internet’s largest provider of hosted posting comments for blogs and websites, announced they were the victim of a data breach in the summer of 2012. See report here. If so, share them in the comments below. Data leaked was email addresses, passwords and lesser amounts of personal contact information associated with the email addresses. The information included phone numbers, names, addresses and included both paid and prepaid numbers, as well as sim card information and the IMEI and IMSI numbers. The data stolen varies somewhat but, basically, the data includes real names, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and home addresses. 524 million in virtual coins being stolen from Coincheck, a Japanese exchange. The data was hacked from and assembled from attacks on more than 50 Japanese websites in the retail, food and beverage, financial, entertainment, and transportation sectors. Leaked data included usernames, passwords, email addresses, IP addresses, and other optional record fields, akin to instant messenger IDs, birthdays, and Facebook related details.
The data hacked included usernames, email addresses, and partially encrypted passwords. As the stolen information included drivers license numbers Uber was legally required to report the data breach. But it was a sizable and large financial loss to Dun & Bradstreet to have the database stolen. The hack was discovered in January 2018 and involved the loss of names, email addresses, phone numbers, and trip data. The largest breach of personal data ever in India happened when 120 million customers of Reliance Jio, certainly one of India’s largest mobile phone carriers, had their personal data hacked. Among the data stolen were customer names, mobile numbers, email addresses, and the unique ID number of the phone. Based on report, a 52GB database was stolen containing information on 33.7 million people. The downloaded spreadsheet files contained personal information about thousands of Ticketfly customers and employees of venues that use the service. 185 billion customers were affected by these hacks. Ticketfly has not made public what other information was accessed, but it is assumed that information includes names, home addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.
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