2014 has been inundated with security breache. The breaches range from minor to major across a plethora of business types. The last quarter seems to have been hit the worst, witnessing some of the biggest and most advanced hacks we have ever seen.
Here is our list of the top 4 biggest Security Breach of 2014:
iCloud Hack:
Though this may sound sarcastic, it was called “the attack that made the internet suffocate with never before seen traffic”. Apple’s iCloud cloud storage system faced a major data breach in early September. Mobile devices running on iOS had backups configured directly to iCloud, resulting in mass amounts of private celebrity photos and videos being released to the general public.
JPMorgan Chase Hack:
JPMorgan Chase, a leading finance firm, got hacked compromising around 70 million user’s personal information. It was the largest corporate information attack ever in hacking history. It has been said that it will take months for the bank to come up with new security breach policies. In the mean time, the hackers will be able to learn more about the bank’s working system which will lead to further attacks.
Dropbox Hack:
Dropbox had user data and login credentials hacked. Even though Dropbox denies this claim, hackers released credentials for 400+ users over the internet. They also claimed to have millions of user details to which Dropbox never issued a reply statement.
Sony Hack:
Probably the worst hack of the year happened to Sony, which led to the disclosure of files related to unreleased future projects along with internal data of user information including salary credentials, residential address and contact numbers of employees including executives. The attackers also claimed to have TBs of files yet to be released. The most awkward part was the initial release of 27GB data seeded via BitTorrent, seeding by EC2 instances that happened to be SSL certified by Sony. Ouch.
Apart from these major attacks there are several minor attacks also happened this year compromising security Breach that includes Mozilla MDN password leak, eBay user credential theft by fake sites and credit card breaches on Home Depot stores.
It is certain that 2015 will introduce new technologies and with that, new security flaws. With these attacks, one can be assured that security can never be believed blindly just by what has been said. Innovative advancement can only be achieved if we can learn from these security flaws. That being said, I hope it doesn’t happen to you!
