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November 14, 2025

Tesla, Inc.

A breach in Tesla's systems has compromised the personal data of more than 2.5 million customers. The exposed information includes sensitive full names, email addresses, and vehicle identification numbers (VINs), raising concerns about potential identity theft.

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November 14, 2025

Qantas Airways

A significant data breach at Qantas Airways has compromised the personal information of over 5.7 million customers. The exposed data includes phone numbers, birth dates, addresses, names, and email addresses, raising potential identity theft and fraud.

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November 14, 2025

AT&T

Over 86 million current and former AT&T customers had their data exposed in a massive breach, with more than 44 million Social Security numbers, alongside names, birthdates, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

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November 14, 2025

National Public Data

A data broker specializing in background checks was breached in April 2024. Approx. 2.9 billion records – including full names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers – were stolen and put up for sale on the dark web.

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November 14, 2025

Facebook Data Leak

Personal data of 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries was leaked on a hacker forum, including names, phone numbers, birthdates, and more. Facebook said it was scraped via a vulnerability patched in 2019, but the leak still posed a major privacy risk.

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November 14, 2025

Yahoo Data Breach

One of the most staggering cybersecurity incidents ever recorded, the Yahoo data breaches affected all 3 billion user accounts the company had at the time making it the largest known data breach in history.

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November 14, 2025

Equifax Breach

An ex-AWS employee exploited a firewall misconfiguration to breach Capital One's cloud, impacting over 100 million U.S. and Canadian customers. Data stolen included names, addresses, credit scores, and over 140,000 Social Security numbers, along with 80,000 bank account numbers. This led to heightened scrutiny of cloud security and an $80 million fine for Capital One.

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November 14, 2025

Capital One Breach

A former AWS employee exploited a firewall misconfiguration to breach Capital One's cloud, affecting over 100 million U.S. and Canadian customers. Data stolen included names, addresses, credit scores, and over 140,000 Social Security numbers. The breach led to intense scrutiny of cloud security and an $80 million fine for Capital One.

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November 14, 2025

T-Mobile Breach

T-Mobile revealed a data breach affecting 37 million customers due to an unsecured API. Exposed data includes names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses, posing risks for phishing. This marks T-Mobile's eighth breach since 2018, raising concerns about its cybersecurity.

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July 19, 2025

Ticketmaster

In 2024, hackers ShinyHunters broke into Ticketmaster’s systems, extracting a 1.3 TB dataset containing personal data for ~560 million individuals — including names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, order details, and partial payment card info.

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November 14, 2025

LinkedIn Breach

Hackers scraped data of 700 million LinkedIn users more than 90% of its user base using legitimate APIs. Data included full names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, LinkedIn usernames, and more. The dataset was later sold on a dark web forum. This breach showed how publicly available or accessible data can be weaponized at scale.

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