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County Ventures

SIZE : 200 million personal records DATE : October 2013

Court Ventures fell victim to a hacker selling credit card numbers and social security numbers from this breach . A subsidiary of Experian , the hacker gained access to the Court Ventures database by posing as a private investigator from Singapore . Lessons were not learned , and Experian was again breached in 2020 through deception .

Twitter

SIZE : 330 million users DATE : May 2018

Twitter blamed a ‘ bug ’ or ‘ glitch ’ for the fact it left all of its users ’ passwords unmasked for months in an internal log . While Twitter has said that there was no breach or misuse of this information , only time will tell . In July 2020 , hackers took over high-profile Twitter accounts in a bitcoin scam , with the likes of Elon Musk , Bill Gates and Barack Obama all targeted .

112 July 2022