17 Biggest Data Breaches of All Time

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7. Court Ventures

No. of records: 200 million
Year: 2012

As the name suggests, Court Ventures, which was bought by credit reporting agency Experian, is a company that collects court records. Before the acquisition, it seems the company was reselling data from a US Info Search database to a third party, including one from Vietnam that was apparently involved in identity theft. Some 200 million records were endangered, including social security numbers, credit card data, and bank account info.

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