All time top 10 Hacking Attacks

With more and more reliance of human beings on technology for storage of large chunk of data and incessant dealing with it by sharing transferring and editing, the importance of computer networking rising day by day. When this data is dealt by using internet, which is an open network with no centralised control, there is possibility of compromise in security of data. This is done by various hacking techniques which utilises loopholes in computer system for the purpose of breaching privacy of data. This data most of the time is used to get economic fortunes. Hacking attacks becoming more and more frequent day by day.

Here is the list of top 10 Hacking attacks in history.

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1. 2016: Bangladesh Bank Heist
Bangladesh Bank heist was noteworthy for how the attackers got into the bank’s IT systems. The story caused huge concern because the attackers had managed to hack the SWIFT global monetary transfer system, giving them free rein to make withdrawals under the protection of the supposedly hyper-secure SWIFT system. The gang responsible had planned to remove $950 million, before a simple error blew their cover. They ended up making off with $81 million anyway, and have been linked to other attacks on banks across Asia.

2. 2011: CitiGroup
CitiGroup’s slew security measures exposed in 2011 when hackers by repeating the way the URL changed when credit card customers entered a valid username and password, were able to access the accounts of more than 200,000 people, stealing names, addresses and account numbers, and making off with $2.7 million.

3. 2014: Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange
The Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange had been bankrupted by the theft of some $460 million worth of Bitcoin currency, probably over a period of several years. Following an investigation, it was discovered that hackers had broken into the Mt Gox customer database, stealing the usernames and passwords of 60,000 people, and using them to get into the system to steal currency.

4. 2014: Cyberattack on Yahoo
In 2014, Yahoo announced it had suffered a cyber attack in 2014 that affected 500 million user accounts constituting the largest massive hacking of individual data directed against a single company.

5. 2018: Facebook
On September 27th, Facebook was breached when hackers exploited three bugs that put at least 50 million users’ data at risk. While private messages or credit cards were not taken, Facebook made a statement that the hackers obtained personal information like your name and hometown from your profile page.

6. 2017: WannaCry
The WannaCry attack in May 2017 spread like wildfire by targeting a vulnerability in older versions of Windows OS. Within days, tens of thousands of businesses and organisations across 150 countries, including the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), were locked out of their own systems by WannaCry’s encryption. The attackers demanded $300 per computer to unlock the code.

7. 2007: Estonia DDoS
Over a three week period, wave after wave of DDoS attacks in Estonia, hit the servers which ran the country’s government, media, education and banking infrastructure, crippling the economy, public services and daily life. Fingers were pointed towards neighbouring Russia, but no concrete evidence were found.

8. 2009: Hacker steals tens of millions of credit card details
Gonzales, a hacker from Miami, was responsible for one of the biggest fraud cases in US history. Gonzales was responsible for sealing tens of millions of credit card and debit card numbers from over 250 financial institutions. He had hacked the payment card network from companies including the 7-Eleven convenient store chain.

9. 2019: Dubsmash
In February, video messaging app Dubsmash announced that hackers nabbed nearly 162 million users’ account holder names, email addresses and hashed passwords.

10. 2019: First American
First American Financial Corp., an American real estate and mortgage insurer, revealed in May 2019 that it left 900 million sensitive customer files exposed. The trove of digital documents that could have been accessed included private information, such as Social Security numbers and bank accounts. But it’s not clear if any of the files were improperly accessed.