Irrespective of the high security techniques used by companies
they have been unable to completely secure their data.
Here are some of the biggest data scandals which the world will always remember:
Facebook
Streaming latest on all news channels and
websites is the latest data scandal of Facebook.
The company shared data of its users with 60 phone makers.
Facebook let the device manufacturers develop Facebook versions on their
devices so users could have Facebook easily accessible on their phones.
It is a sort of extended viewing of Facebook.
This let the manufacturers obtain data of the user and even the data of
the user’s friends who had denied sharing information with third-parties.
Earlier Facebook was involved in a data scandal with Cambridge Analytica
where data of 87 million users was shared with the consulting firm.
Equifax
Personal information of 143 million users and
credit card details of 209,000 users was breached.
The breach began in the month of May of the same
year but it was discovered only on 29 July, 2017.
Adult Friend Finder
The data breach happened in the month of October, 2016.
About 412 million accounts were compromised.
20 years data was collected on six databases
which included names, email ids and passwords.
SHA-1 hashing algorithm was used by the company to protect
the passwords which is considered to be vulnerable.
Anthem
The famous insurance company of United States was breached
for personal data in the month of February, 2015.
Employment histories, social security numbers, addresses,
date of births etc. were stolen from 78.8 million customers.
An Anthem user clicked on a phishing email which caused the data breach.
The breach cost the company more than $100 million.
JP Morgan Chase
In July, 2014 personal information of 76 million personal
accounts and 7 million small business accounts were stolen.
More than 90 servers of the bank were hacked.
However, no cash was transferred from any account.
Yahoo
The company revealed in the month of October, 2017 that there
were total 3 billion accounts compromised in the data breach.
The number was revised from 1 billion which they had disclosed in 2013.
Yahoo used bcrypt algorithm to secure their user passwords which is pretty robust.
The king of internet was bought by Verizon
for a mere $4.48 billion after the breaches.
eBay
On May, 2014 personal information of all 145 million eBay users was compromised.
The credentials of 3 corporate employees were used to
access their system and the breach continued for 229 days.
However, financial information of the users was safe.
Uber
Hackers accessed the GitHub account of Uber where they
stole the username and passwords to AWS account of Uber.
Personal information of 57 million Uber users and 600,000 drivers was stolen.
Social Security Numbers and credit card details of the users were safe.
They also had to pay $100,000 to the hackers to destroy the stolen data.
The breach cost the company $20 billion of its value
which dropped from $68 billion to $48 billion.