With organizations turned upside down by the COVID19 pandemic, there has never been a worst time to suffer a data breach or cyber attack on companies. The bad news is that unsettled employees, many of whom have been asked to work from home and depleted workforces means there is an increased chance of an incident occurring. Most online breaches take up to 100 days or more to get discovered, so we could see the devastating effect of it for months if not years after.
Here are some of the companies affected by data breach in 2020 so far.
Major US pharmaceutical firm suffered a major data breach in March but didn’t notify the public until a month later.
Hackers gained access to the videotape giant’s login IDs, passwords, nicknames, emails, birthdates and country of residence, with 160,000 users exposed. Even worse, some accounts experienced fraudulent purchases for Fortnite gaming currency.
One of the world largest domain registrants and hosting companies suffered a data breach where 28,000 customers were affected in October 2019. However, it wasn’t discovered until April 2020.
The international hotel giant got hacked with 5.2 million customer records leaked.
250 million customers’ data breached.
The fashion platform suffered a significant data breach. Hackers managed to get email addresses, names, usernames and even a clothing size preferences of Poshmark’s users. The company is said to have around 50 million users.
14 600 patients effected.
The social media behemoth had 600 million users effected.
1.8 Million disaster survivors effected
Unknown number of effected customers
Identity theft is a very common crime and many times you do not have to do anything wrong for your information to get to the criminal. You may ask how might that be possible?
Hackers can break into a small businesses as your doctors office, schools, membership sites, online dating sites, social media accounts and so on.
Here are some different ways hackers can get hold of your personal information with potentially devastating consequences.
