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2. HANNAFORD BROTHERS - 2013
protection from identity theft through Experian 6. JP MORGAN CHASE - 2014
that would introduce malware to their systems.
Hackers managed to steal 4.2 million credit is $14.95 per month. For this speciic breach, In 2014, a cyber-attack aimed at JP Morgan This type of attack used social engineering,
and debit card numbers within 3 months from that would amount in $837.2 million in costs Chase compromised 83 million household and where phishing emails appeared to be from
300 Hannaford stores, a large supermarket related to fraud monitoring, which is often business accounts that included personal someone the employees knew, thus tricking
retailer. Hackers collected customer data via offered in the wake of a breach in order to information such as names, email addresses, them into trusting its source. Hackers then
malware uploaded to Hannaford servers. The protect victims from identity theft. Hackers
and phone numbers. The attack was said to used Sony employee login credentials to
malware could intercept customer data during irst gained access to Home Depot’s systems impact two-thirds of all American households, breach Sony’s network. Over 100 terabytes of
transactions, which was then used in over through stolen vendor login credentials. Once making this breach one of the largest in data was stolen and monetary damages are
2,000 cases of international customer fraud.
the credentials were compromised, they history. A little less than a year later, four men estimated to be over $100 million.
installed malware on Home Depot’s payment were indicted for the attack on JP Morgan
3. TARGET - 2013
systems that allowed them to collect consumer Chase as well as several other inancial 8. ANTHEM - 2015
In order to gain access to customer credit
credit and debit card data.
institutions with charges including securities In February of 2015, hackers broke into
and debit card numbers, hackers installed and wire fraud, money laundering, and Anthem’s servers and stole up to 80 million
malicious software on POS systems in Target 5. EBAY - 2014
identity theft. The men made over $100 million records. The healthcare giant is the parent
stores in self-checkout lanes. The card- Between February and March of 2014, Ebay through the scheme. In some instances, login company of several well-known healthcare
skimming malware compromised the identities requested that 145 million users change their credentials were obtained through tricking providers including Blue Cross and Blue
of 70 million customers and 40 million credit account passwords due to a breach that users and then used to access customer Shield.
and debit cards. The same malware was later compromised encrypted passwords along with information. Hackers also exploited the The attack began with phishing emails
found in the Home Depot breach referenced other personal information. Like many of the Heartbleed bug in this breach, a vulnerability sent to ive employees who were tricked into
below.
other breaches included in this post, hackers in OpenSSL that allowed hackers to steal downloading a Trojan with keylogger software
gained access to Ebay accounts through stolen information that is normally encrypted.
that enabled the attackers to obtain passwords
4. HOME DEPOT - 2014
login credentials. The credentials did not come for accessing the unencrypted data. This
A security breach that attacked Home Depot’s from customers themselves but instead from 7. SONY PICTURES - 2014
breach was particularly devastating because
payment terminals affected 56 million credit Ebay employees. In this particular breach,
Analysts believe that the Sony breach began it included the theft of millions of medical
and debit card numbers. The Ponemon institute user payment information via PayPal was safe with a series of phishing attacks targeted
records thought to be worth 10 times the
estimated a loss of $194 per customer record since it was encrypted; users were only asked at Sony employees. These phishing attacks amount of credit card data. It is suspected that
compromised due to re-issuance costs and to change their passwords as a precautionary worked by convincing employees to download the stolen health records will be sold on the
any resulting credit card fraud. For example,
measure.
malicious email attachments or visit websites
black market in the future. ■

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