These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024 | TechCrunch

23andMe blamed users for its massive data breach last year .

Change Healthcare took months to confirm hackers stole most of America ’s health data.

Snowflake customer hacks snowballed into major breaches at the center of a series of major patient data breaches.

Synnovis , a London -based provider of pathology services, was hit by a ransomware attack.

Columbus , Ohio sued a security researcher for truthfully reporting on a cyberattack.

MoneyGram , AT&T , Hot Topic , and MoneyT&T all suffered massive data breaches this year .

Salt Typhoon hacked phone and internet providers, thanks to a U.S. backdoor law, which allowed hackers access to wiretap systems.

Avaya , Check Point , Mimecast , and Unisys paid $6.9 million in fines for downplaying and minimizing the damage of their own breaches stemming from the 2019 SolarWinds espionage attack.

In May , a spyware app called pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced with downloadable links to archives of data stolen from its servers.

Instead of notifying affected individuals of the breach, the company’s founder told TechCrunch that he “deleted everything because the data breach could have exposed my customers”.