It seems like news of security breaches has become so common, so frequent that they all blend together. When you stop and look at a list of major breaches from the past year, the scale of the threat becomes starker.
So, here is a reminder of some of the big and notable breaches from 2019.
November: T Mobile — affecting about 1 million customers. https://gizmodo.com/a-whole-bunch-of-t-mobile-prepaid-customers-got-hacked-1840014881
September: Novaestrat — affecting nearly every one in Ecuador. https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/17/ecuador-data-breach-20-million-citizens
August: CafePress — affecting about 23 million users. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cafepress-data-breach-exposes-personal-info-of-23-million-users/
July: Capital One — affecting about 100 million people. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/29/business/capital-one-data-breach/index.html
June: LabCorp — affecting about 7.7 million customers. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/04/labcorp-data-breach-7-7-million-consumers-affected/1346264001/
June: Quest Diagnostics — affecting about 11 million customers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/quest-diagnostics-discloses-breach-of-patient-records/2019/06/03/aa37b556-860a-11e9-a870-b9c411dc4312_story.html
May: Canva — affecting about 139 million customers. https://marketingland.com/canva-urges-users-to-change-passwords-following-data-breach-affecting-up-to-139-million-users-261693
May: First American Financial — 885 million records. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajdellinger/2019/05/26/understanding-the-first-american-financial-data-leak-how-did-it-happen-and-what-does-it-mean/#62186179567f
March: Dow Jones — 2.4 million records. https://www.zdnet.com/article/dow-jones-watchlist-leaked-online