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In what may turn out to be the final major cyber attack of 2016, the blood testing and diagnostics giant Quest announced that hackers attacked the firm in a breach affecting about 34,000 people.

A senior Yahoo executive addressed a massive security incident on Wednesday, offering additional details about a breach that saw hackers steal personal data from more than 500 million customer accounts in late 2014.

As incidents involving data breaches by hackers litter the evening news, technophiles and technophobes alike have become more concerned about the security of their data, especially that tied to credit cards and other financial information.

While we all heard about the Equifax data breach, there are plenty of others instances of hackers stealing millions of identities:

It seems like every quarter there's a new story about how hackers breached a major company's cyber-defenses and stole millions of pieces of highly sensitive data.

To date, about 400 million breaches have yielded hackers some kind of personal information, according to Arun Vishwanath, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University at Buffalo and an expert in cyber deception.

An online dating company has been found in breach of privacy laws after hackers accessed the personal information of about 245,000 of its Australian users.

Equifax breach: In September 2017, Equifax, one of three major credit reporting agencies, announced hackers obtained the sensitive data of about 143 million Americans, or about 44 % of the population.

Get inside the mind of a hacker with this interactive infographic that will inform you on what you need to know about data breaches.

For example, password breaches give hackers significant information about typical password patterns that help them create algorithms to crack other passwords.

Data breaches have become a common occurrence, and hackers can not only get confidential details about a case or deal, but steal your client's information as well.

Next time you read a headline about some breach by an external hacker, remember that these attacks account for less than half of the breaches out there.

In case you're not following the news about the latest data breach, a hacker stole the records of approximately 15 million T - Mobile customers.

Following a slew of reports from users complaining about stolen Bitcoin Cash tips, Reddit has disclosed its email reset system was breached by a hacker.

Following the publication of data belonging to about 10,000 Department of Homeland Security workers, hackers have now published the contact info belonging to 20,000 FBI workers, information they acquired by breaching a Justice Department database.

Operating under the handle «Elliot Alderson,» a name borrowed from the hacker drama «Mr. Robot,» he has had a busy few weeks needling Indian authorities about a series of data breaches.

Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted passwords.