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The Top Data Breaches of 2024
- Billions of records on millions of people have been exposed at an estimated cost of nearly $10 trillion dollars to people and businesses around the world.
- Here are five of the most noteworthy breaches this year: The National Public Data (NPD) breach, the Ticketmaster breach, a breach at an insurance and financial tech vendor Infosys McCamish Systems, a breach at debt collector Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, and the AT&T breach.
- Hackers stole nearly three billion records from National Public Data.
- The Ticketmaster hack resulted in over a half-billion people having their personal information compromised. Live Nation Entertainment, which owns Ticketmaster, first announced the breach in May 2024. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach.
- The breach at insurance and financial tech vendor Infosys McCamish Systems affected millions of people in 2024 and data was subject to unauthorized access and acquisition.
- A breach at a U.S. debt collector, Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, might have compromised the records of over four million people. The scope of the breach increased in several updated filings.
- Hackers stole the call and text logs of nearly all AT&T customers, estimated at nearly 100 million people.
- To protect yourself from data breaches, we suggest the following: Check your credit, consider a security freeze, and get ID theft protection; monitor your identity and transactions; keep an eye out for phishing attacks; and update your passwords and use two-factor authentication.
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