Big Data Breaches: More Than Financial Posted by AVCU on 11:28 AM

As reported in CU Info Security, there are a number of recent big data breaches to which few have paid much attention because they aren't directly financial related.  

In 2016 so far a spate of mega breaches have belatedly coming to light. Four announced in May came from MySpace.  LinkedIn reported that 165 million user passwords were compromised during its 2012 data breach. Tumblr was breached prior to its 2013 acquisition by Yahoo and reports that 65 million accounts were breached at the time. Fling, an adult social network, says 41 million of its accounts were breached in 2011. And on September 1, 2016 it was reported that music service Last.fm was hacked in March 2012 and data on 43.6 million users - including usernames, email addresses and passwords - was stolen.

Now add to the list of late-announced data breaches almost 69 million user accounts from file-hositng provider Dropbox, which reportedly involved email addresses and passwords. On August 27th Dropbox began alerting customers that if they hadn't changed their password since mid-2012 they would be required to do so.

Read more details of lesser-known large-scale data breaches in the CU Info Security article.