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Largest Data Breaches Of 2022 - Protect Data With Deep

Packet Inspection

By Randy Reiter CEO of Don’t Be Breached

There were many massive Data Breaches in 2022. Don’t be a member of this group in 2023. Data
breaches are occurring now on almost a daily basis. They result in confidential data such as credit card
numbers, email addresses, passwords, social security numbers and other private personnel or
organization data being exposed.

Since this data is always maintained in centralized databases these databases are high profile targets
for Hackers and Rogue Insiders. Experian has reported that 31% of data breach victims have their identity
later stolen.

Largest Data Breaches in 2022

• November 7, 2022. Medibank the largest health insurance provider in Australia was publicly
threatened by an unidentified Hacker. The Hacker claimed to have stolen the data on 9.7 million
customers. Medibank confirmed that 500,000 health claims had been stolen in the data breach.
• September 19, 2022. Kiwi Farms forum was hacked. Emails, IP addresses and passwords were
stolen. The Hacker obtained the administrator credentials to the website via session hijacking.

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