ID: 1518: Malicious Software/Hack compromises unknown number of credit cards at fifth largest credit card processor

  • Date: 2009-01-20
  • Records Lost: 130,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: michaelcordes
  • Location: Princeton NJ, US
  • Organizations: Heartland Payment Systems, Tower Federal Credit Union, Beverly National Bank

ID: 548: Hack exposes 94 million credit card numbers and transaction details

  • Date: 2007-01-17
  • Records Lost: 94,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: TJX Companies Inc.

ID: 2061: Hackers access credit-reporting database.

  • Date: 1984-06-01
  • Records Lost: 90,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: TRW, Sears Roebuck

ID: 110: Major card processor breached losing millions of credit card numbers

  • Date: 2005-06-19
  • Records Lost: 40,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: Tucson AZ, US
  • Organizations: CardSystems, Visa, MasterCard, American Express

ID: 5285: 40 million forum members' usernames and clear-text passwords leaked online by hackers

  • Date: 2011-12-26
  • Records Lost: 40,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: CN
  • Organizations: Tianya

ID: 4521: Personal information of 35 million users including names, email addresses, phone numbers and encrypted resident registration numbers and passwords accessed by hacker

  • Date: 2011-07-28
  • Records Lost: 35,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: KR
  • Organizations: SK Communications, Nate, Cyworld

ID: 4942: Database containing user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information accessed by hacker(s).

  • Date: 2011-11-10
  • Records Lost: 35,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: Washington DC, US
  • Organizations: Steam (Valve, Inc.)

ID: 3755: Hackers breached database and accessed username and password information on more than 30 million individuals

  • Date: 2009-12-14
  • Records Lost: 32,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: jkouns
  • Location: Redwood City CA, US
  • Organizations: RockYou Inc.

ID: 289: Names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth of 26.5 million U.S. military veterans stolen

  • Date: 2006-05-22
  • Records Lost: 26,500,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: US
  • Organizations: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

ID: 841: Two missing CDs contained over 25 million names, addresses, dates of birth and National Insurance numbers of the entire HMRC child benefit database as well as 7 million banking details

  • Date: 2007-11-20
  • Records Lost: 25,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: GB
  • Organizations: HM Revenue and Customs, TNT

ID: 5489: 24 million email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits from credit cards, passwords and more illegally accessed

  • Date: 2012-01-15
  • Records Lost: 24,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: arex1337
  • Location: Henderson NV, US
  • Organizations: Zappos

ID: 5282: Data for 20,000,000 game site users reportedly leaked by hackers

  • Date: 2011-12-22
  • Records Lost: 20,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: ??? ???, CN
  • Organizations: 7k7k

ID: 5306: 17,900,617 members notified of forced password reset after hacker accesses "limited number" of users' logins

  • Date: 2011-12-28
  • Records Lost: 17,900,617
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: Redwood City CA, US
  • Organizations: Care2

ID: 1172: T-Mobile lost disk containing data on 17 million customers

  • Date: 2008-10-06
  • Records Lost: 17,000,000
  • Source: Inside
  • Submitted by: jkouns
  • Location: DE
  • Organizations: T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom

ID: 2059: Vital records of 1985 Canadian taxpayers stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center.

  • Date: 1986-11-01
  • Records Lost: 16,000,000
  • Source: Inside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: Toronto ON, CA
  • Organizations: Canada Revenue Agency

ID: 5091: 13.2 million players of Maple Story had their names, usernames, and encrypted resident registration numbers and passwords acquired by hacker

  • Date: 2011-11-25
  • Records Lost: 13,200,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Dissent
  • Location: KR
  • Organizations: Nexon Korea Corp

ID: 943: Lost backup tape of BNY Mellon Shareholder services contains names, Social Security numbers and possibly banking information.

  • Date: 2008-03-26
  • Records Lost: 12,500,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: admin
  • Location: Jersey City NJ, US
  • Organizations: LaSalle Bank, BNY Mellon Shareowner Services, Archive Systems Inc, The Walt Disney Company, SYNOVUS

ID: 1146: Names, Social Security numbers, and addresses of 11,000,000 found on lost discs

  • Date: 2008-09-06
  • Records Lost: 11,000,000
  • Source: Outside
  • Submitted by: Lyger
  • Location: KR
  • Organizations: GS Caltex

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