World’s Biggest Data Breaches, Leaks and Hacks

The world’s biggest data breaches, leaks and hacks are shown in an interesting, interactive infograph from dataisbeautiful.com.

If you start at 2004, at the bottom of the chart, as you scroll up to 2017 it’s clear to see that data breaches of companies and government organisations is increasing. The breaches are also becoming more severe, because companies whose services you use sometimes don’t protect their own networks.