Major security breaches occur in quick succession one after another. Is it a chain reaction? How do we stop it?
- January 2012: Zappos hacked, 24 million accounts accessed
- June 2012: 6.5 Million encrypted LinkedIn passwords leaked online
- July 2012: 420,000 Formspring passwords compromised in security breach
- July 2012: Yahoo! Mail hacked
- August 2012: Dropbox hacked, user accounts database leaked.
- August 2012: Blizzard Battle.net hacked, user accounts leaked.
- September 2012: Private BitTorrent tracker hacked, passwords leaked by Afghani hackers
- September 2012: Over 30,000 usernames and passwords leaked from private torrent tracker RevolutionTT
- September 2012: IEEE admits password leak, says problem fixed
- November 2012: Adobe Connect Security Breach Exposes Personal Data of 150K Users
- November 2012: Security breach hits Amazon.co.uk , 628 user id and password leaked
- November 2012: Anonymous claims they hacked PayPal’s servers, leaks thousands of passwords online
- December 2012: 100 million usernames and passwords compromised in a massive hack of multiple popular Chinese Web sites
- January 2013: Yahoo! Mail hacked (again).
- February 2013: Twitter breach leaks emails, passwords of 250,000 users