Biggest data breaches of 2019: Same mistakes, different year

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Biggest data breaches of 2019: Same mistakes, different year

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That’s a whopping 5,183 data breaches for a total of 7.9 billion exposed records.
Passport numbers, medical records, bank account details, social media credentials, Social Security numbers — breaches hit our most sensitive data in 2019, sending millions of people into frenzied lock-down.
Marriott kicked off 2019 with a record-setting breach when the hotel group announced that hackers accessed the records — including some passport numbers and credit card information — of up to 383 million guests.
Meanwhile, a crop of smaller breaches offered a glimpse into the peculiar cruelty of medical breaches: An attacker held up to 15,000 Australian patients‘ files for ransom, unauthorized email access exposed 326,000 Connecticut patients‘ records, close to a million Washington patients‘ information was left exposed in an open database, and 2.7 million calls to a national Swedish health line were recorded and left out in the open.
Facebook again led the way in April, with 540 million records exposed after leaving users’ names, IDs and passwords out in the open on unprotected servers.
But let’s not let Facebook’s utter embarrassment overshadow another incredibly important breach that happened in April: 12.5 million medical records of pregnant women were exposed, thanks to a leaky server belonging to an Indian government healthcare agency.
Multiple class-action lawsuits were filed against AMCA and its contracting clients over the breach of patients’ payment data, Social Security numbers, medical information, birth dates, phone numbers, addresses and more.
Hard to believe it was only about five months ago that the bank exposed 100 million credit card applications, 140,000 social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers — including such personalized data as names, addresses, ZIP codes, phone numbers and birth dates

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