17 Biggest Data Breaches of All Time

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14. VK

No. of records: 100.5 million
Year: 2016

Russia’s VKontakte is a version of Facebook that is locally-owned, most recently by people close to the government. The data trove that resulted from its hack included over 100 million records including full names, email addresses, plain-text passwords, location info, phone numbers, and secondary email addresses. Perhaps the worst part of this is that the passwords weren’t even encrypted. Experts believe the data was actually stolen in late-2012, or early-2013.

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