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Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek showed they could control a Jeep Cherokee over the internet, prompting Fiat Chrysler to recall around 1.4 million vehicles.
Hackers calling themselves the Impact Team breach the dating site’s owner and later publish user data, prompting extortion scams and a joint Canadian and Australian privacy investigation.
NIST has published SP 800-171, setting security requirements for protecting US Controlled Unclassified Information in non-federal systems.
OPM reveals a cyber intrusion affecting millions of federal employees, later found to include background-check files on 21.5 million people and 5.6 million fingerprints.
US health insurer Anthem disclosed a cyber attack exposing names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of nearly 79 million people.
Hackers calling themselves the Guardians of Peace wiped computers and leaked data at Sony Pictures; the FBI blamed North Korea.
JPMorgan Chase disclosed that a cyber attack had exposed contact details for 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.
Private images of more than 100 celebrities were posted online after attackers targeted their Apple iCloud accounts.
Facebook researchers altered news feeds of nearly 700,000 users to study emotional contagion, without explicitly telling them.
eBay said attackers had used stolen employee credentials to access a database containing customer names, encrypted passwords, and contact details.
Attackers stole payment card data from up to 40 million cards used at Target stores during the 2013 holiday shopping season.
Germany said US intelligence may have monitored Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone, and summoned the US ambassador.