The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising | TechCrunch

The worst data breaches of 2024 have surpassed the 1 billion stolen records and rising.

These breaches not only affect the individuals whose data was irretrievably exposed, but also embolden the criminals who profit from their malicious cyberattacks.

Travel with us to the not-so-distant past to look at how some of the biggest security incidents of 2024 went down.

U.S. pharma giant Cencora disclosed a February data breach involving the compromise of patients’ health data.

Ticketmaster had an alleged 560 million records stolen in the Snowflake hack.

Kaiser shared health data on millions of patients with advertisers.

USPS shared postal addresses with tech giants like Meta , LinkedIn and Snap .

The data broker allowed its paying customers access to its vast databases of names, dates of birth, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers (even if not all of the data was accurate). The company said it had to file for bankruptcy as it can no longer generate the revenue to address the deluge of class-action lawsuits and mounting liability from state and federal regulators. First published on June 28 and updated on October 14 ..