15 Biggest Companies That have been Hacked

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11. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK)

Total revenue of the company in 2019 (in millions of dollars): 245,616

Total profits of the company in 2019 (in millions of dollars): 81,417

Total assets of the company in 2019 (in millions of dollars): 817,729

Total employees of the company in 2019: 391,500

Warren Buffet’s American multinational conglomerate’s subsidiary Business Wire faced both a denial of service (DOS) attack as well as a more severe cyberattack by hackers stealing press releases and then trading them illegally for millions of dollars. The international scheme went on for several years, from early 2012, and resulted in the arrest of suspected individuals.

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