10 Data Breaches That Shook the World


RSA Security

On March 17, 2011, 40 thousand employees’ information was stolen by an anonymous phishing mail called 2011 Recruitment Plan which was sent to many employees. The mail breached the Adobe flash player of the PC and installed a Trojan called Poison Ivy Rat that gave the remote access of the PC to the hackers.

TJX Inc.

In late 2006, 94 million credit cards were exposed as the TJX Inc. did not have any firewall installed in the network. This allowed the hackers to steal about hundred million credit card details by toying with an in store kiosk that lets the users apply for jobs.

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