17 Biggest Data Breaches of All Time

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3. Spambot

No. of records: 711 million
Year: 2017

This isn’t exactly a data breach, per se, but it’s still a massive data leak. Due to a misconfigured spambot, over 711 million records were exposed, all containing email addresses. The fact that your email address is stored somewhere, somehow, by a spambot should come as no surprise, as these endlessly scrape the internet for data.

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