January 20, 2020: An undisclosed number of shoppers of the children’s clothing retailer, Hanna Andersson, had sensitive payment information exposed. An undisclosed number of email addresses, geographic location data, detailed device data and links to photos and videos posted by parents have been impacted. January 14, 2020: An unsecured database on an Elasticsearch server linking back to Peekaboo Moments, an app where parents post images and videos of their children, was left exposed. The collected data included credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, verification codes and cardholder names.

January 2, 2020: Restaurant conglomerate Landry’s announced a point-of-sale malware attack that targeted customers’ payment card data.

2020 Data Breaches | The Most Significant Breaches of the Year.

2019 Data Breaches | The Biggest Breaches of the Year.

2018 Data Breaches | The Worst Breaches of the Year.

2017 Data Breaches | The Year of Historic Risks.

2016 Data Breaches | The Largest Data Breaches of the Year.

Breaches appear in descending order, with the most recent appearing at the bottom of the page. Note: This post will be continuously updated with new information as additional 2020 data breaches are reported. Data breaches aren’t going anywhere and we’re here to keep you up-to-date on the worst data breaches of the year putting you at risk of identity theft.

In the first quarter of 2020, exposed records were pacing at an increase of 273% over last year. What does 2020 hold? While our hope does spring eternal, with the increase of information insecurity - from exposed databases to phishing attempts, from malware to third-party data leaks - the odds are not looking good. Last year, we also began to see the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) impose hefty fines and penalties on organizations, such as those related to the Facebook Data Leaks, to settle charges of improper handling of personally identifiable information (PII). Between January and September 2019 there were over 7.9 billion data records exposed - a 33% increase from the same time in 2018! Although hackers are obvious culprits in uncovering this data, they often get a helping hand from human error, resulting in a data breach.

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