[Music]
it turns out the biggest security breech
in history was as easy as a hacker
sitting outside of Marshalls near st.
Paul Minnesota and pointing a telescope
shaped antenna toward the store think
all your information is secure
think again welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten data breaches and company
hacks for this list we’re only taking a
look at hacks or data breaches that have
been caused by a hacker group or
organization this means we’re excluding
the efforts of WikiLeaks and Edward
Snowden as they are classified as
whistleblowers nosy Smurf is the the hot
miking tool so for example if it’s in
your pocket they can turn the microphone
on and listen to everything that’s going
on around you but if that’s something
you’re interested in be sure to check
out our list of the top ten
whistleblowers they want to own your
phone instead of you number 10 the TJX
Companies Inc largest data breach in US
history is getting even larger tonight
The Wall Street Journal report says as
many as 200 million customer records
were stolen from Framingham based TJX
which is the parent company of TJ Maxx
and Marshalls it seems like the thing to
do if you plan on taking down a chain of
well-known stores is to take out the
parent company at least in this case it
was originating at the end of 2006 the
computer systems intrusion of the
American Apparel and home goods company
TJX
was only discovered and announced by
anti-fraud agents the following year by
then the culprit had compromised over
forty five million credit and debit card
numbers as well as the personal
information of four hundred and fifty
thousand TJX customers with popular
stores such as Marshalls and home goods
under its umbrella
TJX ended up suffering a major loss of
about two hundred and fifty six million
dollars due to the compromised in the
end eleven men were charged for the
crime including alleged mastermind
Albert Gonzales these eleven individuals
and a man named Albert Gonzales of Miami
is highlighted here is having
masterminded what they call wardriving
number nine Heartland Payment Systems
Inc 60% of small businesses
suffer a data breach go out of business
within six months the question is are
you heartland secure when it’s your job
to hold financial information it’s not
surprising to find yourself targeted by
malicious individuals or groups a
warning tonight your credit or debit
card information might have been
compromised hackers managed to breach a
system that handles payments for 250,000
stores all across the country in 2008
spyware was installed onto the systems
of the fortune 500 company known as
Heartland Payment in order to gather
data from businesses the security breach
which was announced in early 2009
exposed users financial information to
hacker Albert Gonzalez who was arrested
and sentenced to two decades in prison
in 2010 Albert Gonzalez who has been
called the biggest cyber hacker in US
history was sentenced to 20 years in
jail after he stole tens of millions of
credit card numbers this was the longest
sentence given for a cyber crime in
history to that point while the
resulting financial loss for heartland
was less than our previous entry act 110
million dollars the compromised systems
included the exposure of some 130
million card numbers the company has
posted a letter of regret over the
breach that happened late last year and
what it’s doing now number 8 celeb gate
the fappening more than 100 of
Hollywood’s leading ladies accounts
allegedly access photos stolen and
leaked onto underground message boards
all over the Internet Sunday night let’s
face it our society is obsessed with
celebrities so whenever anything is
leaked about their personal lives it’s
gonna spread like wildfire I am your
host former iCloud user Jimmy Fallon and
now on even my dogs wearing pants I
don’t care what happens yeah when a
hacker used phishing and brute force
guessing against Apple’s iCloud to
access many celebrities private photos
and leaked them to the public in 2014
the internet went crazy known as the
fappening because of the photos graphic
content many celebrities such as
Jennifer Lawrence Kate Upton and Kaley
Cuoco
were affected while the actual leaking
of nudes is not an uncommon event the
Internet as evidenced by this celebrity
photo hack turned it into a modern
hacking phenomenon every person on the
planet has the right to take nude photos
of themselves every single person they
also have the right to share it or not
share it with the world these hackers
stole these woman’s property and took
that choice away from them it’s part of
a cycle of sexualized emotional violence
that’s gotta stop thanks a lot Internet
meanwhile several people remain under
investigation in relation to the case
now the things you do on your phone are
everywhere you want them automatically
iCloud number-7 LivingSocial consumer
alert tonight involving 50 million
customers who shop online the discount
website LivingSocial is now telling its
users to change their passwords
they’re also apologizing after that site
was hacked those who subscribe to our
next entry for their daily deals may
have gotten more than they bargained for
in 2013 in April of that year a
professional hacker group was able to
force their way into living socials
encrypted systems and obtain information
on over 50 million customers not limited
to email addresses the database hack saw
hackers sneak away with information like
names passwords and birth dates though
the company was quick to reassure
registered users that no credit card
info was compromised the site claims
credit card information is safe but the
hackers got names emails birthdays and
encrypted passwords almost all of the
company’s users were affected except for
some in particular Asian countries as
their info was stored on separate
systems as for LivingSocial they say
they are still investigating who’s
behind the hacking number six Epsilon
someone got into the systems and Epsilon
right and it could be that they were
searching for vulnerable systems
and they found a vulnerable system they
dove in that he didn’t realize what they
found till they found it this email
marketer is one of the biggest sources
of communication between modern
corporations
unfortunately in 2011 databases
containing information on about 50 of
their clients including JP Morgan Chase
and Best Buy had been mysteriously
stolen by cyber criminals this caught
everybody’s attention because there were
so many companies huge company and some
of them very local to Columbus while the
culprits were only able to obtain
individuals email addresses and the
exact number of those affected is
unknown estimates put the number as high
as 250 million we’re living in the
information age and one of the biggest
and most important currencies in the
information age is information number
five
Adobe Systems the software company
announced a major security breach that
could have far-reaching consequences
hackers were able to access Adobe’s
source code and customer information
back in October 2013 this massive
computer software company
was the victim of a sophisticated
security attack across Adobe’s expensive
catalog this destructive intrusion was
able to steal monumental amounts of
personal information from at least 38
million users including credit card info
regardless of which Adobe platform was
used hackers were also able to obtain
the source code of Adobe products in
what has been called one of the worst
breaches in American history Adobe later
tried to rectify the situation by
offering victims one year of free credit
monitoring number for PlayStation
Network
it’s where computer gamers go to play
against each other and compare tactics
yet for the last six days users of
Sony’s PlayStation Network have been
greeted instead by error messages our
next entry is why you should never
attack the gaming world breached by an
unnamed hacking group in April 2011 the
Sony Entertainment service known as the
PlayStation Network saw the compromise
of the personal information of 77
million users including their credit
card numbers and email addresses this
massive breach caused Sony to shut down
the service resulting in an outage that
lasted 23 days the Japanese conglomerate
later came under fire for
reporting possible theft until a week
following the attack in order to save
their consumer base Sony offered free
games and monthly subscriptions to
affected gamers with some estimates
putting overall damages to the company
as high as two billion dollars who are
third-party publishing partners you guys
have been with us for over 15 years
making tremendous games and I know the
network outage was costly to you
number three Target Corporation now to
the growing problems for customers who
had their credit card information stolen
while shopping at Target now comes word
hackers got their pin numbers – and at
least one customer is now pleading with
his bank for help
retail data breaches seem to be a trend
in the 21st century if you happen to
have had your information on file with
the retail giant known as Target in 2013
you are probably one of the 110 million
customers affected by one of the largest
leaks in history targeted by numerous
unknown hackers many customers of the
corporation saw their identification and
financial information extracted and
released on the web target needs to make
sure that however they were able to
obtain this data from their system from
their servers cannot happen again
the massive backlash that followed the
data breach resulted in numerous high
ranking officials stepping down as well
as a proposed 19 million dollar
settlement with MasterCard once that
person submits prooflike receipts or
statements he or she can receive a
maximum of $10,000 in damages
number 2 Ashley Madison most of us can
recover from a one-night stand with the
wrong woman but not when it’s every
night for the rest of our lives when
you’re using a site that functions as a
service to help you conduct extramarital
affairs
you are already skating close to the
line as it is Ashley Madison which is a
dating service for married people
looking to have an affair
a website that I definitely only heard
about for the first time this year
in the most recent hack on our list a
hacker group known as the impact team
decided enough was enough and accessed
Ashley Madison’s user database copying
about 25 gigabytes of their details the
hackers are threatening to release
customer records including secret sexual
fantasies
not to mention real names and addresses
after requests for the site’s shut down
were ignored the group released the data
in to individual dumps which resulted in
a large amount of public shaming and
unconfirmed suicide incidents he talked
about his depression he talked about
having his name on there and he said he
was just very very sorry
before we leaked our top pick here are
some honorable mentions
new reports say attackers infiltrated at
workstation used by a Google engineer
then gained access to computer code for
the software that authenticates users of
Google’s email calendar and other online
programs a flaw in security software
that may have put your personal
information such as credit card numbers
and passwords at risks it’s called the
heartbleed bug basically the hackers got
into the network and we’re able to use
Home Depot ins own system to put malware
on each of the registers so basically
when you went into Home Depot swiped
your card they were stealing the card
almost as quickly as Home Depot was
getting it there was an important
message from Facebook’s white hat
program last week it was actually a data
breach in disguise data about you
uploaded by person X could be
inadvertently downloaded by person wife
number one Sony Pictures Entertainment
suffered significant damage there were
threats against its employees I am
sympathetic to the concerns that they
faced having said all that yes I think
they made a mistake if you release
something controversial that’s likely to
anger a large group of people don’t be
shocked if they decide to retaliate the
hacking scandal that has embarrassed
movie giant Sony now even Messier after
private emails about the a-list of the
a-list were leaked in supposed
opposition to the release of the comedy
film the interview a hacker group known
as the guardians of peace found a way to
access a large amount of confidential
information from Sony Pictures not
standing down the company released the
film which revolved around a plot to
kill North Korea’s Kim jong-un do you
promise you’ll do this I promise if you
promise you’ll never leave if you
promise it all promise well then same
time one two three promise sticking by
their threat the guardians of peace
revealed much of the inner workings of a
company by way of personal emails
financial info and future film scripts
while initially North Korea was
suspected of sponsoring the hack many
officials still have doubts with the
country having denied any involvement in
the cyberattack whoever it is they don’t
seem to be interested in money they
don’t seem to be trying to make a
political point because they haven’t
said anything about why they’re due
they really just want to make life
difficult for people who work for Sony
Pictures which is really puzzling kind
of only makes sense if it’s North Korea
do you agree with our list what went
wrong and why can’t hackers be stopped
what do you think was the most
destructive hack for more breach worthy
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com you can do it
[Music]
it turns out the biggest security breech
in history was as easy as a hacker
sitting outside of Marshalls near st.
Paul Minnesota and pointing a telescope
shaped antenna toward the store think
all your information is secure
think again welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top ten data breaches and company
hacks for this list we’re only taking a
look at hacks or data breaches that have
been caused by a hacker group or
organization this means we’re excluding
the efforts of WikiLeaks and Edward
Snowden as they are classified as
whistleblowers nosy Smurf is the the hot
miking tool so for example if it’s in
your pocket they can turn the microphone
on and listen to everything that’s going
on around you but if that’s something
you’re interested in be sure to check
out our list of the top ten
whistleblowers they want to own your
phone instead of you number 10 the TJX
Companies Inc largest data breach in US
history is getting even larger tonight
The Wall Street Journal report says as
many as 200 million customer records
were stolen from Framingham based TJX
which is the parent company of TJ Maxx
and Marshalls it seems like the thing to
do if you plan on taking down a chain of
well-known stores is to take out the
parent company at least in this case it
was originating at the end of 2006 the
computer systems intrusion of the
American Apparel and home goods company
TJX
was only discovered and announced by
anti-fraud agents the following year by
then the culprit had compromised over
forty five million credit and debit card
numbers as well as the personal
information of four hundred and fifty
thousand TJX customers with popular
stores such as Marshalls and home goods
under its umbrella
TJX ended up suffering a major loss of
about two hundred and fifty six million
dollars due to the compromised in the
end eleven men were charged for the
crime including alleged mastermind
Albert Gonzales these eleven individuals
and a man named Albert Gonzales of Miami
is highlighted here is having
masterminded what they call wardriving
number nine Heartland Payment Systems
Inc 60% of small businesses
suffer a data breach go out of business
within six months the question is are
you heartland secure when it’s your job
to hold financial information it’s not
surprising to find yourself targeted by
malicious individuals or groups a
warning tonight your credit or debit
card information might have been
compromised hackers managed to breach a
system that handles payments for 250,000
stores all across the country in 2008
spyware was installed onto the systems
of the fortune 500 company known as
Heartland Payment in order to gather
data from businesses the security breach
which was announced in early 2009
exposed users financial information to
hacker Albert Gonzalez who was arrested
and sentenced to two decades in prison
in 2010 Albert Gonzalez who has been
called the biggest cyber hacker in US
history was sentenced to 20 years in
jail after he stole tens of millions of
credit card numbers this was the longest
sentence given for a cyber crime in
history to that point while the
resulting financial loss for heartland
was less than our previous entry act 110
million dollars the compromised systems
included the exposure of some 130
million card numbers the company has
posted a letter of regret over the
breach that happened late last year and
what it’s doing now number 8 celeb gate
the fappening more than 100 of
Hollywood’s leading ladies accounts
allegedly access photos stolen and
leaked onto underground message boards
all over the Internet Sunday night let’s
face it our society is obsessed with
celebrities so whenever anything is
leaked about their personal lives it’s
gonna spread like wildfire I am your
host former iCloud user Jimmy Fallon and
now on even my dogs wearing pants I
don’t care what happens yeah when a
hacker used phishing and brute force
guessing against Apple’s iCloud to
access many celebrities private photos
and leaked them to the public in 2014
the internet went crazy known as the
fappening because of the photos graphic
content many celebrities such as
Jennifer Lawrence Kate Upton and Kaley
Cuoco
were affected while the actual leaking
of nudes is not an uncommon event the
Internet as evidenced by this celebrity
photo hack turned it into a modern
hacking phenomenon every person on the
planet has the right to take nude photos
of themselves every single person they
also have the right to share it or not
share it with the world these hackers
stole these woman’s property and took
that choice away from them it’s part of
a cycle of sexualized emotional violence
that’s gotta stop thanks a lot Internet
meanwhile several people remain under
investigation in relation to the case
now the things you do on your phone are
everywhere you want them automatically
iCloud number-7 LivingSocial consumer
alert tonight involving 50 million
customers who shop online the discount
website LivingSocial is now telling its
users to change their passwords
they’re also apologizing after that site
was hacked those who subscribe to our
next entry for their daily deals may
have gotten more than they bargained for
in 2013 in April of that year a
professional hacker group was able to
force their way into living socials
encrypted systems and obtain information
on over 50 million customers not limited
to email addresses the database hack saw
hackers sneak away with information like
names passwords and birth dates though
the company was quick to reassure
registered users that no credit card
info was compromised the site claims
credit card information is safe but the
hackers got names emails birthdays and
encrypted passwords almost all of the
company’s users were affected except for
some in particular Asian countries as
their info was stored on separate
systems as for LivingSocial they say
they are still investigating who’s
behind the hacking number six Epsilon
someone got into the systems and Epsilon
right and it could be that they were
searching for vulnerable systems
and they found a vulnerable system they
dove in that he didn’t realize what they
found till they found it this email
marketer is one of the biggest sources
of communication between modern
corporations
unfortunately in 2011 databases
containing information on about 50 of
their clients including JP Morgan Chase
and Best Buy had been mysteriously
stolen by cyber criminals this caught
everybody’s attention because there were
so many companies huge company and some
of them very local to Columbus while the
culprits were only able to obtain
individuals email addresses and the
exact number of those affected is
unknown estimates put the number as high
as 250 million we’re living in the
information age and one of the biggest
and most important currencies in the
information age is information number
five
Adobe Systems the software company
announced a major security breach that
could have far-reaching consequences
hackers were able to access Adobe’s
source code and customer information
back in October 2013 this massive
computer software company
was the victim of a sophisticated
security attack across Adobe’s expensive
catalog this destructive intrusion was
able to steal monumental amounts of
personal information from at least 38
million users including credit card info
regardless of which Adobe platform was
used hackers were also able to obtain
the source code of Adobe products in
what has been called one of the worst
breaches in American history Adobe later
tried to rectify the situation by
offering victims one year of free credit
monitoring number for PlayStation
Network
it’s where computer gamers go to play
against each other and compare tactics
yet for the last six days users of
Sony’s PlayStation Network have been
greeted instead by error messages our
next entry is why you should never
attack the gaming world breached by an
unnamed hacking group in April 2011 the
Sony Entertainment service known as the
PlayStation Network saw the compromise
of the personal information of 77
million users including their credit
card numbers and email addresses this
massive breach caused Sony to shut down
the service resulting in an outage that
lasted 23 days the Japanese conglomerate
later came under fire for
reporting possible theft until a week
following the attack in order to save
their consumer base Sony offered free
games and monthly subscriptions to
affected gamers with some estimates
putting overall damages to the company
as high as two billion dollars who are
third-party publishing partners you guys
have been with us for over 15 years
making tremendous games and I know the
network outage was costly to you
number three Target Corporation now to
the growing problems for customers who
had their credit card information stolen
while shopping at Target now comes word
hackers got their pin numbers – and at
least one customer is now pleading with
his bank for help
retail data breaches seem to be a trend
in the 21st century if you happen to
have had your information on file with
the retail giant known as Target in 2013
you are probably one of the 110 million
customers affected by one of the largest
leaks in history targeted by numerous
unknown hackers many customers of the
corporation saw their identification and
financial information extracted and
released on the web target needs to make
sure that however they were able to
obtain this data from their system from
their servers cannot happen again
the massive backlash that followed the
data breach resulted in numerous high
ranking officials stepping down as well
as a proposed 19 million dollar
settlement with MasterCard once that
person submits prooflike receipts or
statements he or she can receive a
maximum of $10,000 in damages
number 2 Ashley Madison most of us can
recover from a one-night stand with the
wrong woman but not when it’s every
night for the rest of our lives when
you’re using a site that functions as a
service to help you conduct extramarital
affairs
you are already skating close to the
line as it is Ashley Madison which is a
dating service for married people
looking to have an affair
a website that I definitely only heard
about for the first time this year
in the most recent hack on our list a
hacker group known as the impact team
decided enough was enough and accessed
Ashley Madison’s user database copying
about 25 gigabytes of their details the
hackers are threatening to release
customer records including secret sexual
fantasies
not to mention real names and addresses
after requests for the site’s shut down
were ignored the group released the data
in to individual dumps which resulted in
a large amount of public shaming and
unconfirmed suicide incidents he talked
about his depression he talked about
having his name on there and he said he
was just very very sorry
before we leaked our top pick here are
some honorable mentions
new reports say attackers infiltrated at
workstation used by a Google engineer
then gained access to computer code for
the software that authenticates users of
Google’s email calendar and other online
programs a flaw in security software
that may have put your personal
information such as credit card numbers
and passwords at risks it’s called the
heartbleed bug basically the hackers got
into the network and we’re able to use
Home Depot ins own system to put malware
on each of the registers so basically
when you went into Home Depot swiped
your card they were stealing the card
almost as quickly as Home Depot was
getting it there was an important
message from Facebook’s white hat
program last week it was actually a data
breach in disguise data about you
uploaded by person X could be
inadvertently downloaded by person wife
number one Sony Pictures Entertainment
suffered significant damage there were
threats against its employees I am
sympathetic to the concerns that they
faced having said all that yes I think
they made a mistake if you release
something controversial that’s likely to
anger a large group of people don’t be
shocked if they decide to retaliate the
hacking scandal that has embarrassed
movie giant Sony now even Messier after
private emails about the a-list of the
a-list were leaked in supposed
opposition to the release of the comedy
film the interview a hacker group known
as the guardians of peace found a way to
access a large amount of confidential
information from Sony Pictures not
standing down the company released the
film which revolved around a plot to
kill North Korea’s Kim jong-un do you
promise you’ll do this I promise if you
promise you’ll never leave if you
promise it all promise well then same
time one two three promise sticking by
their threat the guardians of peace
revealed much of the inner workings of a
company by way of personal emails
financial info and future film scripts
while initially North Korea was
suspected of sponsoring the hack many
officials still have doubts with the
country having denied any involvement in
the cyberattack whoever it is they don’t
seem to be interested in money they
don’t seem to be trying to make a
political point because they haven’t
said anything about why they’re due
they really just want to make life
difficult for people who work for Sony
Pictures which is really puzzling kind
of only makes sense if it’s North Korea
do you agree with our list what went
wrong and why can’t hackers be stopped
what do you think was the most
destructive hack for more breach worthy
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com you can do it
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