17 Biggest Data Breaches of All Time

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13. Heartland

No. of records: 130 million
Year: 2009

It’s not just online services that get hacked, but also payment processors. In what was believed to be the largest credit card scam in history, hackers got away with over 130 million credit card details after they broke into Heartland’s systems and planted malicious software to steal the data going through its internal network.

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