Hacking Facebook, attacking celebrity Twitter accounts, leaking Yahoo data – millions of people, corporations and entire countries fall victim to hacker attacks every year. Rambler will tell you about the largest cyberattacks in history.
In March 2020, British company Comparitech reported a data breach of more than 267 million Facebook users. Also in August 2020, experts from DarkNet Data Leakage & Breach Intelligence (DLBI) discovered the personal data of 150 million Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn users on the Web. Then the company was obliged to pay a record five billion in fines.
And on October 4, 2021, users all over the world were left without Facebook and many of its other services. The company announced that the changes in the configuration of the backbone routers have led to their own. This global outage is rumored to have leaked data for more than a billion users, but Facebook VP Santosh Janardan did not confirm this information. Against the background of what happened, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the company, lost about six billion dollars, and in the ranking of the richest people according to Forbes, he dropped from third place to sixth.
In July 2020, the accounts of such celebrities as Bill Gates, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Barack Obama and many others were attacked, as well as a number of companies, including Apple and Uber. The attackers, on behalf of famous US personalities, called for sending bitcoins to a crypto wallet. which was indicated in the post, and they promised to return each translation in double the amount. Previously, only individual accounts were hacked on Twitter, for example, Donald Trump in 2015 and even Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019.
As a result, in 2020, a cyberattack was carried out on more than 50 verified accounts; in the first hours, the scammers managed to get more than 110 thousand dollars.
Yahoo
In 2013 and 2014, cybercriminals hacked into Yahoo users' accounts. The scammers managed to steal their personal data, including email addresses and phone numbers. However, Yahoo itself announced a cyberattack only in 2016.
As a result, the responsibility for the incident was attributed to the FSB and two hackers from Russia and Canada, and only the Canadian pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Analysts estimate that nearly three billion accounts were affected and the company's estimated value fell by $ 350 million.
Marriot
In 2014, a system was hacked where all data about customers of the Marriot hotel chain was stored, namely names, surnames, passport, contact and payment information. However, the attack was discovered only four years later.
Then, about 500 million customers were affected, and the company had to pay only $ 124 million in fines for leakage of guest data.
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