Identity Theft
Identity theft is an all too common occurrence in today's digital age. Almost anyone can fall victim to an identity thief. It's important to take preventative steps to protect your personal information like signign up for credit monitoring or some other identity theft protection software. Check out this article for more information about what is ...
Heroes of Newerth
In December 2012, hackers infiltrated member information from Heroes of Newerth, a multiplayer online battle arena game, and stole email addresses, passwords and usernames.
Hemmakvall
In July 2015 a video store chain called Hemmakvall was hacked and the email addresses, home addresses, names, passwords and phonenumbers of approximately 50,000 customers was stolen and published.
Heartland Payment Systems
On January 2009, Heartland Payment Systems became involved in the largest credit card scam in history when hackers accessed 130MM consumer records containing debit and credit card information. As a result, Heartland paid more than $110MM to credit card issuers to settle claims from the credit card holders.
Hannaford Bros. Supermarket
On December 2007, Hannaford Bros. Supermarket was the victim of a cyber breach that resulted in 4.2MM customer credit and debit card numbers being illegally accessed, which resulted in more than 1,800 incidents of credit card fraud by the victimized customers, many of whom filed lawsuits and class action suits against Hannaford Bros. Supermarket.
Gawker
In December 2010 the website Gawker was hacked and 1.3 million of their user's information including email addresses, passwords and usernames was stolen and published.
Gamigo
In March 2012 an online gaming company out of Germany called Gamigo was hacked and more than 8 million of their member's email addresses and passwords was stolen.
Adult Friend Finder
In May 2015, Adult Friend Finder, which is an adult hookup website, had nearly 4 million records stolen by hackers and published publicly. The hackers stole and published dates of birth, email addresses, gender, geo location, IP addresses, races, relationship statuses, secual preferences, language and usernames.
Fridae
In May 2014, an Asian LGBT website called Fridae was hacked and resulted in more than 25,000 user accounts being compromised including the account email addresses, passwords and usernames.
Forbes
In February 2014, the website Forbes was hacked and more than 1 million user accounts were stolen which included information about user's email addresses, passwords and usernames.
Excellus
The insurance carrier, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, was breached as early as December 2013, which resulted in approximately 10.5MM member accounts being compromised including member's names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical claim records, insurance ID numbers and financial information.
Experian
Experian reported in October 2015 that 15MM customer accounts were compromised through one of its credit card processing companies that it uses for one of its clients, T-Mobile. The breach occurred between September 2013 and September 2015.
Evernote
On February 2013, Evernote, a popular online note-taking software, was breached, which left its 50MM users vulnerable. Evernote realized the hack occurred the following month and quickly requested that its entire user base reset their passwords. Hackers gained access to user's email addresses, usernames, and passwords, but not payment information according to Evernote.
eBay
On May 2014, eBay advised their 145MM users that they should reset passwords because a hacker infiltrated accounts and gained access to customer names, passwords, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. eBay assured users that the hackers did not access associated Paypal accounts.
Domino’s
In June 2014, Domino's Pizza in France and Belgium was hacked and the stolen customer information was held ransom. When Domino's refused to pay the ransom the email addresses, home addresses, names, passwords and phone numbers of almost 650,000 customers was released in January 2015.
Court Ventures
In March 2014, Court Ventures, a subsidiary of Experian, unknowingly provided access to a hacker in Vietnam who illegally sold the personal information of 1,300 people, which resulted in taxpayer identity fraud.
Comcast
In November 2015, Comcast was breached and information from approximately 590,000 customer accounts were stolen including email addresses, home addresses and passwords.
Bitcoin Security Forum
In September 2014, approximately 5 million passwords and email addresses for Gmail accounts were hacked from an undisclosed location and posted on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Although the source and location of the hack was never confirmed the information was confirmed as real.
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