USA’s list of the biggest data breaches and hacks of all time
SAN FRANCISCO — Data breaches have become a fact of digital life, and they seem to be getting bigger. Here’s USA’s list of the largest reported breaches, in order of magnitude.
- Yahoo! 3 billion December 2016
- Marriott: 500 million November 2018
- Yahoo! 500 million September 2016
- MySpace 360 million May 2016
- Under Armour 150 million March 2018
- Equifax, 145.5 million September 2017
- EBay 145 million May 2014
- Target, 110 million November 2013
- LinkedIn 100 millio, May 2016
- AOL, 92 million October 2007
- JP Morgan Chase, 83 million October 2013
- Anthem 80 million February 2015
- Sony PlayStation Network 77 million April 2011
- Uber 57 million Nov 2017
- Home Depot, 53 million September 2014
- TJ Maxx, 45.7 million 2007
- Ashley Madison, 32 million August 2015
- Office of Personnel Management 21.5 million July 2015
- T-Mobile (via Experian), 15 million October 2015
- Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, 5 million April 2018.
- Scottrade, 4.6 million October 2015
- UCLA Health 4.5 million July 2015
For purposes of this ranking, we did not include hacks with under 1 million users, such as the Sony Pictures Entertainment breach, which while expansive in terms of the volume of personal information stolen was largely contained to a relatively small number of Sony employees.