History of ten of the most serious hacker attacks: Sony has cried-blind hacker, cyber attacks, Sony-IT information

Well-known financial website CNNMoney recently counted so far in the history of the most serious hacker attacks 10 times, including computer virus, memorandum of credit card theft, data breaches and embarrassing leaks.

United States 4 million government workers stolen

United States Government agency computer networks recently suffered biggest hacker attacks, United States federal personnel administration attacks on prime targets, 4 million current employees and former employees of the Federal Government information were stolen. In addition, nearly all government agencies have data theft.

Sony attacks led the Chairman to step down

Hackers allegedly associated with North Korea in order to allow Sony (Sony Pictures) cancel the release "to assassinate North Korean leader, Kim Jong-UN"-themed movies of the interview (The Interview), launched a massive attack on the latter, leading to the embarrassing memos, employee data of the company or business secrets exposed. Several months after the attacks, its influence still continues, computer glitch-prone, email continues to be frozen. In addition, the company's co-Chairman Amy Pascal (Amy Pascal) has also resigned.

Hackers attack with 100,000 computers Spamhaus

In March 2013, the European anti-spam organization Spamhaus suffered the most powerful network attacks and hacker attacks using the number of servers and bandwidth are up to the highest in the history. According to Spamhaus employed to defuse the crisis in professional anti-DDoS services CloudFlare revealed that Internet speed slows down as a result of most of Europe. The attack, hackers used the nearly 100,000 servers, attack traffic to 300GB per second. Than Iran in September 2012, of similar cyber attacks launched a large scale 3 times, the attacks had led United States part few days refused to accept access Bank Web site.

Heartland1.3 of millions of stolen credit card information

Suffered in the largest credit card theft, hackers from the payment service giant Heartland stealing 130 million credit card numbers and other account information. Heartland provides credit card services, easier targets. After the attack, to Visa, MasterCard, Heartland United States American Express and other credit card companies to pay more than $ 110 million in reparations.

Conficker worm virus infected tens of millions of computers

Most widely attacked in the history of the Conficker worm has infected tens of millions of Windows PC in more than 200 countries around the world, United Kingdom Government computers have been hit particularly hard. Conficker worm so it is difficult to prevent and stop, mainly because after the infected computer, can spread to shared networks of other computers. Computer users do not have to take any action, the worm can spread itself. Conficker Worm infected computers by its rage on Mowgli, paralysis of important system services, and security software, and automatically download files, prevent access to Web site to download the security update file.

Target1.1 attacks on millions of user accounts

By the end of 2013, United States discount retailer Target announced its 110 million user accounts being hacked. Even more unfortunate is that the timing of the hacker attack was very accurate, comes as the peak holiday shopping season. Hackers Target to provide heating and air conditioning service company to steal login information for the Target, and then invade its payment system, from 70 million online accounts and stole 40 million credit card numbers, cardholder personal information.

Anthem8000 million customer records stolen

In early 2015, hackers from the United States health insurance provider Anthem theft of tens of millions of customer information, including customer name, date of birth, medical ID, social security number, address, email, and employment information (including income data). Anthem attack database includes 80 million customer records. Anthem no one can escape, even its CEO yuesefu·siweideshi (Joseph Swedish) hacker's personal information was acquired.

TJX9400 customer credit card information theft

In 2005, a hacker successfully into the United States apparel and home fashion low price retailer TJX's payment system. The retailer owns discount T.J. Maxx, Home Goods, Marshalls, etc. In the ensuing months, they steal 94 million customers bank card information. Miami hacker aerbote·gangsaleisi (Albert Gonzalez) is eventually apprehended by the FBI, he is the mastermind of the attack, was sentenced to 20 years ' imprisonment.

Sony continuous attacks by multiple

For Sony, absolutely unforgettable in spring 2011 when the company encountered many times different departments hacking incidents, lead to 77 million credit card accounts was stolen. Suffer the most serious of these is the Sony PlayStation Network sector. In April 2011, the company found and PlayStation Network services and Qriocity streaming service had been "external attack". In order to assess the attack severity, Sony has suspended these services a few days.

JPMorgan's 83 million customers were stolen

In October 2014, the JPMorgan Chase (JPMorgan Chase), 76 million customers and 7 million small business users contact information stolen by hackers, including the customer's name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. But JP Morgan said hackers cannot steal any account information, such as account number, user ID, date of birth and social security number.