Hack attack: The 16 biggest data breaches of the 21st century
You'll never guess who was hacked
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It’s easy to place too much faith in a company’s cyber security when you hand over your information to log in, but hacking can apparently be even easier than we thought, as it was for one Australian teen who hacked Apple.
Based on a list from CSO Online, who composed a ranking not on the number of records compromised, but on how much damage the breach caused for companies and users, check out this gallery to see the surprising big-name companies you never knew were hacked.
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