Speed Philippines – July 2019

BEFORE YOU GO

2008 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018

145M

eBay

One of the more explosive data

breaches in recent years is the

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data

scandal, which exposed the private

information of 87 million Facebook

users to a researcher working at

Cambridge Analytica and handling

then U.S. Presidential candidate

Donald Trump’s campaign.

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3B

110M

Yahoo!

Target

Stores

134M

Heartland

Payment

System

100M

LinkedIn

145.5M

150M

500M

Equifax

Under

Armour

Marriott

360M

MySpace

412M

Adult

Friend

Finder

The internet is a gold mine of knowledge. On the

flipside, it’s also an unlimited pool of personal

information that organizations—unfortunately, even

illegal ones—can take advantage of.

Here are the top ten biggest data breaches of the

decade, from 2008 to 2018, that compromised millions

of accounts and data: