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Adobe + Target + PlayStation leaks alone total over 300 million credentials. AOL 2004 = 92 million AOL 2006 = 20 million Apple 2012 = 12 million Blizzard 20

by dm2 12y ago

Adobe + Target + PlayStation leaks alone total over 300 million credentials. AOL 2004 = 92 million AOL 2006 = 20 million Apple 2012 = 12 million Blizzard 2012 = 14 million BNY Mellon 2008 = 12.5 million Cardsystems Solutions 2005 = 40 million Evernote 2013 = 50 million GS Caltex 2008 = 11 million Heartland 2009 = 130 million Living Social 2013 = 50 million RockYou 2009 = 32 million TMobile 2006 = 17 million TJ Maxx 2011 = 94 million US DoD 2009 = 76 million US Dept of Veteran Affairs 2006 = 26.5 million Yahoo 2013 = 22 million Those are only the ones over 10 million before 2014, leaving out some foreign hacks like Auction.co.kr (18 million). (Also UK NHS 8.3 million, LinkedIn 8 million, Ebay, Target, LexisNexis) I promise you that just over 1 billion is about the number of major company leaks that are publicly available. Yes, lots of duplicates between those leaks, but most contain additional valuable data besides just the credentials. ATT, BCBS, Citigroup, Facebook, Gap, Gawker, Chase, Medicaid, Monster.com, Network Solutions, Nintendo, Sega, Starbucks, Twitter, Ubisoft, Washington Post, and numerous government and academic organizations all have hundreds of thousands to millions of credentials publicly available.

afreak 12y ago
I might be willing to concede on this but you also have to take age into account. Let's look at this useful spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmenB57kGPGKdHh6eGpTR2lPQl9NZmo3RlVzQ1N2Ymc&single=true&gid=2&range=A1%3AW400#gid=2 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmenB57kGPGKdHh... And here are the numbers: Hacked: 880,575,016 Inside job: 137,714,840 Accidental: 63,322,485 Lost/stolen: 206,237,702 Misc: 1,825,350 Things like government-issued identification numbers and whatnot are the most severe, so how many people have been affected by that since 2004? If we break it apart by category we start to see how these breaches have become: E-mail addresses: 530,991,405 SSN/PII: 327,471,624 Credit card: 335,772,083 Authentication: 430,756,146 Bank records: 4,270,000 For the first line, it's just a list of e-mail addresses. The latter four are the most severe. Out of that list, what is the most useful? I'd wager the SSN/PII, authentication, and bank records; credit cards are only useful for so long really. This means we're at over 750,000,000 records that may be usable. However, with the authentication portion, we're looking at that being even more useless as time goes on. Accounts from 2004 may not be usable in 2014 either. So yes. We have had over 1.2 billion records leaked, but really how much of that is at all useful? None of these take duplicates into account however.
- dm2 12y ago
  Useful to me? None. Useful to spammers? Half a billion emails is very useful. Useful to hackers? Hundreds of millions of records. Useful for fraud? Hundreds of millions of records. Useful for data-mining and intelligence? All of them. Many banks don't issue new debit/credit card numbers, they just change the expiration (the 3 digit code is rarely used from my personal experiences). It's easy to brute force the expiration. SSN numbers and security questions can allow access to many accounts. Figuring out password hashes (lots of methods) is sometimes easy, sometimes hard. Bank account numbers rarely change, damage can be done with these. How many people use their real information online? Most. How many use secure passwords and change their passwords ever/enough? Few. The LexisNexis breach alone is a disaster, they're basically data-miners with exclusive access to personal details.

by dm2 12y ago

afreak 12y ago

I might be willing to concede on this but you also have to take age into account. Let's look at this useful spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmenB57kGPGKdHh6eGpTR2lPQl9NZmo3RlVzQ1N2Ymc&single=true&gid=2&range=A1%3AW400#gid=2 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmenB57kGPGKdHh... And here are the numbers: Hacked: 880,575,016 Inside job: 137,714,840 Accidental: 63,322,485 Lost/stolen: 206,237,702 Misc: 1,825,350 Things like government-issued identification numbers and whatnot are the most severe, so how many people have been affected by that since 2004? If we break it apart by category we start to see how these breaches have become: E-mail addresses: 530,991,405 SSN/PII: 327,471,624 Credit card: 335,772,083 Authentication: 430,756,146 Bank records: 4,270,000 For the first line, it's just a list of e-mail addresses. The latter four are the most severe. Out of that list, what is the most useful? I'd wager the SSN/PII, authentication, and bank records; credit cards are only useful for so long really. This means we're at over 750,000,000 records that may be usable. However, with the authentication portion, we're looking at that being even more useless as time goes on. Accounts from 2004 may not be usable in 2014 either. So yes. We have had over 1.2 billion records leaked, but really how much of that is at all useful? None of these take duplicates into account however.

dm2 12y ago
Useful to me? None. Useful to spammers? Half a billion emails is very useful. Useful to hackers? Hundreds of millions of records. Useful for fraud? Hundreds of millions of records. Useful for data-mining and intelligence? All of them. Many banks don't issue new debit/credit card numbers, they just change the expiration (the 3 digit code is rarely used from my personal experiences). It's easy to brute force the expiration. SSN numbers and security questions can allow access to many accounts. Figuring out password hashes (lots of methods) is sometimes easy, sometimes hard. Bank account numbers rarely change, damage can be done with these. How many people use their real information online? Most. How many use secure passwords and change their passwords ever/enough? Few. The LexisNexis breach alone is a disaster, they're basically data-miners with exclusive access to personal details.