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LONDON, Dec 30, 2021, /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Digital privacy expert reviews the most significant data breaches of 2021

2021 was another record-breaking year for leaks, hacks, and dark web data

dumps. Hackers were extremely active in exploiting the weak points of Internet

users and companies, with the attacks ranging from private individuals to

hospitals and entire municipalities. According to the Identity Theft Resource

Center (ITRC)

[https://www.idtheftcenter.org/post/identity-theft-resource-center-to-share-late

st-data-breach-analysis-with-u-s-senate-commerce-committee-number-of-data-breach

es-in-2021-surpasses-all-of-2020/?nowprocket=1], in the first nine months of

2021, 281.5 million people were impacted by data breaches, data exposures and

data leaks.

“This year we saw headline after headline about ransomware attacks, third-party

hacks, breaches, and even some cyber espionage. Our lives have moved to the

digital realm, making us leave even more digital footprint. Not surprisingly,

it invites all kinds of scammers and hackers to look for various security

vulnerabilities that they could exploit,” explains Daniel Markuson, a digital

privacy expert at NordVPN [https://nordvpn.com/fr/].

Some of the biggest data breaches globally

From the enormous number of data breaches and hacking attacks that happened in

2021, Daniel Markuson from NordVPN [https://nordvpn.com/fr/] has listed the top

largest data breaches.

Among the biggest global breaches

[https://nordvpn.com/fr/blog/data-breaches-2021/], here comes the tech giant

Facebook, whose users’ data was found on hacking forums in early 2021. The leak

included full names, phone numbers, emails, location information, and more. In

total, 533 million users were impacted.

Moreover, in 2021 a company Experian was linked to the exposure of data from

220 million Brazilians. The breach, uncovered by the security company PSafe,

resulted in large quantities of personal information being sold on the dark web.

Also, security firm Comparitech announced in September that they’d found a

giant online database of stolen data. The database included information on more

than 100 million travelers, including their names, travel dates, and passport

numbers.

Finally, Syniverse, a company which plays a key role in the infrastructure of

many huge telecom groups (including T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon), in September

2021 admitted that hackers had access to their networks for potentially several

years. More than 500 million records were lost, affecting millions of cellphone

users worldwide.

“2021 highlighted vulnerabilities within third-party connections, saw hackers

getting smarter and better, and showed how cyber attacks can have devastating

real-world consequences,” adds Daniel Markuson from NordVPN

[https://nordvpn.com/fr/].

NordVPN is the world’s most advanced VPN service provider used by over 14

million internet users worldwide. More about us on http://nordvpn.com/ja/,

Twitter, [https://www.twitter.com/nordvpn], LinkedIn

[https://www.linkedin.com/company/nord-vpn].

Source: NordVPN