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The World's Biggest Data Breaches [Infographic]

Posted July 22, 2013 at 9:15pm by iClarified · 16544 views
Many of the world's largest data breaches involve millions of user accounts, passwords and emails stolen and accessed. The folks over at Information is Beautiful put together a nice interactive info graphic conceptualizing all the different breaches (greater than 30,000) including the size and type of information lost.

The list goes back to 2004 and features different companies like Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, AOL, Sony, and much more. Apple's latest developer portal breach even made an appearance on the graphic.

Each breach has some more information attached to it and there are even filters for types of companies and organizations. Be sure to check out the site below for the full graphic.

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