One of our resident bloggers, Lewis Morgan, compiled a terrifying year’s end list of cyber attacks & data breaches. 2015’s list was a shocking 480 million, but hold on to your hats, folks, 2016’s tops that at 3.1 billion breaches! What’s to come for 2017?
Lewis’s calculations involve an intricate process of adding up all of the available numbers from the stories that he reports on a monthly basis. The 2016 running total is at 3,154,135,541 leaked records. The final number is bound to increase, but at this point we know there’s been at least 3,154,135,541.
Stay tuned in January – Lewis will write a detailed analysis of all 2016’s breaches and hacks. Get all the latest updates by subscribing to our Daily Sentinel.
See the monthly, 2016 noteworthy list of events below. Lewis will continue to update this list until the end of January 2017, so be sure to check back.
Note: Each month’s total number is not final, it’s the minimum number of records leaked each month, not the grand total.
2016 Cyber Attacks & Data Breaches
January – 57,740,000
US health insurer Centene loses 950,000 people’s records
Asda website leaves customer details vulnerable for 677 days
Etihad Airways investigating data breach dating back to 2013
Wendy’s Probes Reports of Credit Card Breach
Bitcoin Worth $USD 6 Million Stolen
Hackers have stolen €50 million from an aerospace parts manufacturer
February – 428,000
Linux Mint hacked – lone attacker creates botnet
Lincolnshire Council forced to use pen and paper after ransomware attack
@ChileanCrew Hacks, Leaks Details for 300,000 Chilean Citizens Looking for State Benefits
9000+ Department of Homeland Security staff have their details leaked by hacker
March – 20,018,962
3,000 Tidewater Community College workers victimized in W-2 scam
Attacker compromises information of 250K in Bailey’s data breach
Cyber criminals steal $25 million from Russian banks via phishing attack
Rosen Hotel chain was hit by credit card-stealing malware for 17 months
April – 166,687,282
Minecraft community lifeboat suffers data breach affecting seven million members
CoinWallet Bitcoin Trader Shuts Down Following Data Breach
93.4 million Mexicans at risk after voter database breach
BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It’s All For Sale
ShapeShift loses $230,000 in bitcoin data breach – ex-employee to blame
Trump Hotel chain suffers data breach again
May – 117,339,372
MySpace and Tumblr hit by ‘mega breach’
117 million hacked LinkedIn email addresses and passwords put up for sale
Kiddicare customers at risk after data spills from test server
EPISD employee accounts hacked, money stolen
Payroll vendor employee falls for phishing scam, all clients’ W-2 data involved
1.4 Billion Yen Stolen From 1,400 Japanese ATMs
June – 289,150,000
154 million voter records exposed, revealing gun ownership, Facebook profiles, and more
77K accounts of Financial Giant, State Farm, leaked due to DAC Group Hack
Muslim Match dating website hack exposes more than half a million intimate messages
45 million records from over 1100 Verticalscope.com domains and communities hacked and leaked
51 Million iMesh Passwords Dumped Online
Personal info on 7.93 million people feared leaked
July – 34,195,351
King’s counselling department breaches students’ privacy
Athens Orthopedic Clinic to begin notifying patients of hack
WikiLeaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason
10 million customer’s data leaked from online shopping site
‘Warframe’ Hacked, Details on 775,000 Players Traded
Illinois online voter registration portal hacked, information compromised
August – 11,875,817
Omegle, the Popular ‘Chat with Strangers’ Service Leaks Your Dirty Chats and Personal Info
Data for 6 Million Minecraft Gamers Stolen from Leet.cc Servers
SCAN Health Plan notifying members of unauthorized access to their information
Dominican Hospital notifies patients whose PHI was sent to wrong health plan
Epic’s forums hacked again, with thousands of logins stolen
Turkish Hackers Launch Second Cyber-Attack on Killeen’s Website
Defense university computers hacked, ‘information secure’
Olympics: Hackers attack Russian whistleblower’s doping account
September – 105,400,000
Florida Bar Association hacked, members’ data leaked
6.6 million plaintext passwords exposed as site gets hacked to the bone
Russian hackers leak Simone Biles and Serena Williams files
Russian internet giant Rambler.ru hacked, leaking 98 million accounts
Login details for 800,000 Brazzers users leaked
MarsJoke ransomware targets the government and K-12 educational sector
A single ransomware network has pulled in $121 million
October – 142,160,000
Medical marijuana patients’ personal information found in trash pile
Security Firm Tries Desperate Solution to Alert Company of Data Leak
Hacker grabs over 58 million customer records from data storage firm
Hutchinson Community Foundation falls victim to data breach
DDoS attack against DNS provider knocks major sites offline
Whoops: Pro-Donald Trump super PAC publishes donor credit card numbers
Hackers stole credit card data from Republican website for 6 months
November – 456,403,757
Department of National Defence investigating possible hack of its recruiting site
Over 412 million ‘adult’ accounts exposed – including 15 million deleted ones
Ransomware attack targets Seguin dermatology practice
Report holds Hitachi responsible for debit card data theft
Thieves Use Skimmers on ATMs in Four NYC Hospitals
Madison Square Garden Company Alerts Customers of Payment Card Data Breach
Data of 34 million Keralites leaked in massive breach
December – to be updated
85 million login details stolen from Dailymotion
Joan Jett’s BlackHeart Records leaks thousands of files online
KFC warns 1.2 million Colonel’s Club loyalty scheme members of data breach after website hacked
Japanese hosting company Kagoya hacked; credit card data stolen
ThyssenKrupp secrets stolen in ‘massive’ cyber attack
Yahoo’s billion account database for sale on the black market
This leaves us all with something to reflect on as we look forward to 2017. Subscribe to the Daily Sentinel to get Lewis’s 2016 analysis and updates delivered to your inbox in January.
