Stuxnet, Target, Equifax: Worst breaches of 2010s
Almost daily, we hear about another privacy “incident,” or an “exposure” of information. Among the billions of these incidents that took place over the decade — the vast majority of which were either undetected or unreported — only a handful can legitimately be called security “breaches”: that is, non-theoretical events that actually harmed people or equipment, or sowed real chaos.