The 25 Most-Disturbing Data Breaches in 2020

Stealthlabs, Inc
3 min readDec 17, 2020

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The rapid shift to remote work amid the pandemic has also opened new opportunities for cybercriminals to exploit. As many displaced workers lack secure equipment or protocols to maintain digital security, malicious actors are employing new TTPs to exfiltrate data and compromise business operations.

In fact, the IBM X-Force has reported a 4,300% rise in coronavirus-themed spam since February.

Here is an infographic on some of the most alarming data breaches in 2020:

Infographic Source: Stealthlabs

The 25 Biggest Data Breaches and Attacks of 2020

1) Estee Lauder Data Breach

· Data: January 2020

· Records exposed: 440,336,852

2) Microsoft Data Breach

· Date: January 2020

· Records exposed: 250 million

3) Unacademy Data Breach

· Date: January 2020

· Records exposed: 20 million

4) Tetrad Data Breach

· Date: February 2020

· Records exposed: 120 million

5) MGM Grand Data Breach

· Date: February 2020

· Records exposed: 10.6 million

6) Marriott Data Breach

· Date: March 2020

· Records exposed: 5.2 million

7) CAM4 Data Breach

· Date: March 2020

· Records exposed: 10.88 billion

8) Advanced Info Service (AIS) Data Breach

· Date: March 2020

· Records exposed: 8.3 billion

9) Keepnet Labs Data Breach

· Date: March 2020

· Records exposed: Over 5 billion

10) Sina Weibo Data Breach

· Date: March 2020

· Records exposed: 538 million

11) Antheus Tecnologia Data Breach

· Date: March 2020

· Records exposed: 76,000 fingerprints

12) Nintendo Data Breach

· Date: April 2020

· Records exposed: 160,000

13) Zoom Data Breach

· Date: April 2020

· Records exposed: 530,000

14) Magellan Health Data Breach

· Date: April 2020

· Records exposed: 365,000

15) Easyjet Data Breach

· Date: May 2020

· Records exposed: 9 million

16) Wattpad Data Breach

· Date: June 2020

· Records exposed: 271 million

17) Twitter Data Breach

· Date: July 2020

· Records exposed: 130 user accounts

18) Mailfire Date Breach

· Date: September 2020

· Records exposed: 320 million

19) BigBasket Data Breach

· Date: October 2020

· Records exposed: 20 million

20) Broadvoice Data Breach

· Date: October 2020

· Records exposed: 350 million

21) Vertafore Data Breach

· Date: November 2020

· Records exposed: 27.7 million

22) Home Depot Data Breach

· Date: November 2020

· Records exposed: 40 million

23) FireEye Data Breach

· Date: December 2020

· Red Team assessment tools stolen

24) HMRC Data Breach

· Date: December 2020

· Impacted 23,173 customers

25) Leonardo SpA Data Breach

· Date: December 2020

· Records exposed: 100,000 files or 10GB data

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Stealthlabs, Inc
Stealthlabs, Inc

Written by Stealthlabs, Inc

#Stealthlabs is a US-based information security service provider with deep domain expertise in Managed IT Security, Identity Management and more other services.

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