Top cyber security incidents of 2016 including US Presidential election influence by Russia, DNC email hack, Panama paper leak, yahoo hack, shadow brokers hacking into NSA, ATM hack in India, Malware in Hitachi payment service, SWIFT cyber heist, Bitcoin hack, Weak password in Adult friend finder, MIRAI botnet affecting users of Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, Netflix, Paypal, Pinterest

2. Cyber Security Incidents of 2016
1.Election Votes:
The US intelligence services say Russian
hackers influenced the final vote

3. Cyber Security Incidents of 2016
2. DNC Hack:
Theft of Democratic National
Committee (DNC) including US President
Candidate Hillary Clinton

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3. Panama Paper Leak:
Thieves stole 2.6 TB of data from the
Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonesca

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4. Yahoo Hack:
Half a billion accounts hacked, the
largest ever hack of its kind.
Learnings from Yahoo hack: use strong,
unique passwords for all accounts and
change them regularly.

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5. NSA vs. Shadow Brokers:
Shadow Brokers hacked into ‘Equation
Group’ which was linked to NSA
(National Security Agency)

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6. ATM Cards breach:
“A virus or malware infection at Hitachi
Payments Services led to over 32 lakh
debit cards in India being compromised.”

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7. SWIFT Cyber-heists:
Crooks abused the international cross-
border payment messaging system
SWIFT to steal millions of dollars from
banks across the world. $81 million was
stolen in the first cyber-heist

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8. BitCoin Hack:
Bitfinex, the bitcon trading platform, was
hacked for nearly 120,000 bitcoin, an
attack that undermined the company’s
three-tiered and purportedly
impregnable key-exchange architecture.

10. Cyber Security Incidents of 2016
9. Adult Friend Finder Data:
Almost every account password was
cracked, thanks to the company’s poor
security practices. Even “deleted”
accounts were found in the data leaked
after the data breach.

11. Cyber Security Incidents of 2016
10.DYN DNS hack:
Mirai botnet targeted the Dyn DNS service
and affected online users in US taking
down the access to major web services,
including Twitter, Reddit, Amazon,
Netflix, PayPal, Pinterest & more
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