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Target
Target reported a data breach that compromised the personal information of up to 70 million individuals. -
USIS
USIS, a contractor that conducted background checks for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reported that its networks had been breached and, as a result, thousands of federal employees’ personal information had been compromised. -
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. sustained a data breach in which the personal information of approximately 76 million households was compromised. -
Home Depot
Home Depot announced that debit and credit card information of about 56 million customers had been compromised as a result of a data breach. -
Postal Service
The Postal Service announced that the personal information of about 800,000 individuals had been compromised as a result of a data breach. -
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures announced that the personal information of more than 47,000 current and former employees had been compromised as a result of cyberattacks. FBI officials announced that they believe North Korea was behind the cyberattacks. -
KeyPoint
KeyPoint Government Solutions, which conducts background checks for the federal government, reported that it was breached in a cyber-attack. According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), approximately 48,000 employees may have had their personal information exposed due to the breach. -
Anthem
The nation’s second largest health insurance company, Anthem, announced that the personal information of nearly 80 million customers had been compromised as a result of a data breach. -
OPM
The U.S. Office of Personal Management (OPM) reported publically that the Social Security numbers, dates and places of birth and current and former addresses of at least 4 million current and former federal employees had been compromised as a result of a data breach. According to OPM, the cyberattack began in 2014, but was not detected until April 2015. -
OPM
OPM publicly announces that during its investigation into the first data breach incident, it discovered a “separate but related incident” on its background investigation databases, in which it determined that the sensitive information, including Social Security Numbers and other personally identifiable information of up to 21.5 million individuals, was compromised. -
OPM
OPM and DoD confirm that of the 21.5 million individuals whose Social Security Numbers and other sensitive information were impacted by the second breach incident, approximately 5.6 million of those individuals’ fingerprints had been stolen during the incident
