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  2. Office of Personnel Management data breach - Wikipedia

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    The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). One of the largest breaches of government data in U.S. history, the attack was carried out by an advanced persistent threat based ...

  3. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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    June: the records of 21.5 million people, including social security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, fingerprints, and security clearance-related information, are stolen from the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). [97] Most of the victims are employees of the United States government and unsuccessful applicants to it.

  4. Ashley Madison data breach - Wikipedia

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    Computer hacking. In July 2015, an unknown person or group calling itself "The Impact Team" announced they had stolen the user data of Ashley Madison, a commercial website billed as enabling extramarital affairs. The hacker (s) copied personal information about the site's user base and threatened to release users' names and personal identifying ...

  5. 2017 Equifax data breach - Wikipedia

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    The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017 at the American credit bureau Equifax. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft.

  6. Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident - Wikipedia

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    Jeff Bezos phone hacking incident. Jeff Bezos in 2017. In January 2020, the FTI Consulting company claimed that in May 2018 with "medium to high confidence" the phone of Jeff Bezos had been hacked by a file sent from the WhatsApp account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. [1] [2] The Saudi Arabian embassy to the United ...

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  8. Social hacking - Wikipedia

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    Social hacking describes the act of attempting to manipulate outcomes of social behaviour through orchestrated actions. The general function of social hacking is to gain access to restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission. Most often, social hacking attacks are achieved by impersonating an individual or group who ...

  9. Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Wikipedia

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    Hacks which involve staged public actions [40] [41] [42] (e.g. a zombie march or the Time Traveler Convention of 2005) are clearly a form of performance art, often combined with body art and cosplay. [43] Still other hacks have a strong conceptual art flavor, often satirizing other purported works of conceptual art.