From a Networking Blog I subscribe to here are 10 breaches that seem to have occurred in 2016 plus one that was only reported in 2016 and it isn’t Yahoo.
i-Dressup 2.2 million accounts stolen
DLH.Net 3.3 million accounts stolen
Leet 5 million accounts stolen
ClixSense 6.6 million accounts stolen
Lifeboat 7 million accounts stolen
Dailymotion 18 million accounts stolen
Mail.ru 25 million accounts stolen
Weebly 43 million accounts stolen
VerticalScope 45 million accounts stolen
FriendFinder Networks 412 million accounts stolen (this consisted of 20 years worth of accounts) and included data from AdultFriendFinder & Penthouse.com among 5 others
and Myspace had 427 million accounts stolen earlier but it was disclosed in 2016.
Perhaps this might encourage us all to be more careful with whom we trust our private data and how much we provide of it.
31 Jan 2017
Just a small and hopefully useful update. If you would like to check if your data (it checks against your email address) has been hacked by data breaches there is a free site where you can check against many of the worldwide hacks go to:
You can also subscribe to this site to be informed if in future your email address is stolen in a data breach.
And on the same site have a look at this list of data breached sites: