Data Breach: List of Incidents, Australia’s Notifiable Data Breach, and GDPR Flowcharts

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There is a list of data breaches that occurred in various regions. This is the list that
includes the theft which has more than 30000 and more records. There are certain
organizations where the number of a data breach is not known though they are also listed in
the record. There is a certain breach of data that occurred in North America (Solove and
Citron 2017). An estimated cost of a data breach which is more than $150 million recorded in
the year 2020 and globally it was recorded around $2.1 trillion. A data breach occurred in
Accendo Insurance Co. in the year of 2011 which has a total record of 1,75,350. This is a
healthcare organization that had poor security of online data that caused this breach. After
this Adobe Systems also encountered a breach of data in the year 2013, which recorded
around 152,000,000. This is a tech organization that was hacked and thus this breach
happened (Manworren, Letwat and Daily 2016). Another organization named Advocate
Medical Group whose data was breached in the year of 2013 with a total count of 4,000,000.
This is a healthcare organization in which the data was stolen (Chakraborty et al. 2016).
Another organization named AerServ had an attack in the year of 2018 with a total record of
75,000. This is an advertising organization that was also hacked. Next, another organization
is Affinity Health Plan, Inc. that had a data breach in the year of 2009 with a total count of
3,44,579. This is a healthcare organization where the data was stolen. Another organization
mentioned is Air Canada which had the data breach in the year of 2018, had a total count of
20,000. This is a transport organization that was hacked. Amertide is another organization
that had a breach in the year 2005 had a total count of 2,00,000 (Ablon et al. 2016). This is a
financial organization where the data was stolen. Ancestry, com is the name of another
organization that had a data breach in the year of 2015 with a total count of 3,00,000. This is
a web-based organization with poor security on data (Cheng, Liu and Yao 2017). Anthem
Inc. is another organization that had an attack in the year of 2015 with a total count of
80,000,000. This is a healthcare organization that was hacked and thus the data was breached.

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AOL is another organization which had the attack in the year of 2004 with a total count of
92,000,000 (Trautman and Ormerod 2016). This is a web-based organization that was
hacked. After this, the same organization again had an attack in the year of 2006 and the year
of 2014 with a total count of 20,000,000 and 2,400,000. This is a web-based organization that
was published accidentally and on the next time it was hacked (Schatz and Bashroush 2016).
Apple also had a data breach in the year of 2012 with a total count of 2,75,000. This is a tech-
based organization that was hacked. The organization named Apple Health Medicaid had a
data breach in the year of 2016, where the total count of a breach was 91,000 (Leonard and
Principal 2018). This is a health care organization that had poor security of data. Another
organization named Ashley Madison had a data breach in the year of 2015. The total count
was 32,000,000, this is a web-based organization that was hacked. AT&T is an organization
that had an attack in the year of 2008 had a total count of 113000. This is a telecom based
organization where the data was stolen. The same organization also had an attack in the year
of 2010 where the breach count was 1,14,000. Automatic data processing is the name of
another organization which had an attack in the year of 2005. The total count of the attack
was 1,25,000. This is a financial organization that had poor security of data. The Bank of
New York Mellon is another organization that had an attack in the year of 2008 had a total
cont of 12,500,000. This is a financial organization where the data was stolen. Bank of
America is the name of another organization that had a breach in the year 2005 with a total
count of 1,200,000. This is a finance-based organization where the data was stolen. Barnes &
Nobel is the name of another organization that had a data breach in the year of 2012. This is
an organization of retail stores. In this organization, they had a breach on 63 of their stores
which was hacked. Bell Canada is the name of another organization that had an attack in the
year 2017 with a total count of 1,900,000. This is a telecom organization with poor security
(Carter and Hartridge 2018). The same organization also had an attack in the year of 2018

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with a total count of 1,00,000. Betfair is another organization that had a breach in the year
2010. The total count of the attack was 2,300,000. This is a web-based organization that was
hacked. Bethesda Game Studios is the name of another organization that had an attack in the
year of 2011. The total count of the breach was 200,000. This is a gaming organization that
was hacked. The same organization had an attack in the year of 2018. Black media games are
the name of another organization which had an attack in the year of 2018, the total count of
the attack was 7,633,234. This is a gaming organization that was hacked (Goodman and
Flaxman 2017). Blizzard Entertainment is the name of another organization that had a breach
in the year 2012. The total count of the attack was 7,633,234, this is a gaming organization
that was hacked. Blizzard Entertainment is another organization that had a breach in the year
2012 with a total count of 14,000,000. This is a gaming organization that was hacked. British
Airways is another organization that had an attack in the year of 2018 with a total breach
count of 380,000. This is a transport organization that was hacked. Besides this, the
organization also had an attack in the year 2015 where 10,000 was the count. This is the part
of the organization which is based on the retail industry that was hacked.