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2018 Data Breaches: The Dirty Dozen

CU Times looks back on the top 12 data breaches of 2018.

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What were 2018’s worst breaches? By year’s end, more than 1,200 breaches affected over 560 million reported records. But some sources brought the total even higher by including estimated unreported records.

CU Times looked at the statistics compiled by the San Diego, Calif.-based Identity Theft Resource Center (which was still tallying the damage at press time) to compile this list of 2018’s 12 most damaging breaches. But we also enlisted feedback from other sources, such as the Panama-based virtual private network provider NordVPN.

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Roy Urrico

Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).

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