Happy New Year 2023: New Year is just about to come. Many people are excited for this, but last year also you brought a lot with you. Data leak is also included in these. In 2022, many data leak incidents came to the fore. Personal information of millions of users was stolen in the data leak. Major cyber leaks took place, including data of Twitter, Microsoft, AIIMS, Indian Railways, Spicejet users. In this news, we are going to tell you about the data leak of every month from January to December this year.
January : In the beginning of 2022 i.e. in January 2022, the data of more than 60 Red Cross Society users was stolen. Data of more than 5 lakh users was included in this data leak.
February : In February, there was a cyber attack on the server of NVIDIA, a technology company that made graphics cards. In this, the data of more than 71,000 employees was stolen.
march : In the month of March, the data of the users of Microsoft, Apple and Meta was leaked. However, Microsoft denied any data leak. At the same time, the incident of data leak of Apple and Meta was also disclosed in March.
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april : In April 2022, the incident of data leak of Cash app was carried out. Hackers had stolen the personal financial information of the customers of this app. According to the report, the data of 80 lakh users was stolen in this cyber attack.
May : In May 2022, personal information of more than 20 million users of SuperVPN, GeckoVPN and ChatVPN were stolen, which were being sold on the dark web.
june : The data leak incident of OpenSea NFT marketplace happened in June 2022. The information of how many users’ data was included in this data leak has not been shared.
july : In July 2022, the data of 54 lakh users of Twitter was stolen. This included users’ phone numbers and e-mail addresses.
august : Plex data was leaked in August. In this, the data of millions of encrypted users was stolen, in which their personal information was included. After this, the company asked the users to reset the password.
september : This month the news of data leakage of Uber and Microsoft was revealed. In this, hackers got access to 65 thousand entities of 111 countries.
october : In October 2022, there was a major cyber attack on the servers of Tata Power, due to which the IT infrastructure of the company was affected.
november : In November, the news of ransomware attack on the server of AIIMS Delhi was revealed. Due to this cyber attack, the online OPD service of AIIMS Delhi was affected for a few days.
december : At the end of the year, a big cyber attack on the website of Indian Railways surprised everyone. In this, personal information of railway passengers was made available on the dark web. However, till date no official information about this attack has been shared by the Railways.
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