The Year Of Hacking: Remembering The 10 Biggest Cyber Attacks Of 2014

By Joelle Renstrom | Updated

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JP_Morgan_Chase_logoJ.P. Morgan Chase

In August, J.P. Morgan Chase was hacked, compromising the personal records of 76 million individual customers and 7 million small businesses. The big problem here is that as a financial institution, J.P. Morgan Chase has the most sensitive information its customers have, including accounts, social security numbers, etc. You’d think a company like that would have the best safeguards possible in place. It seems that the hackers got ahold of a list of applications and programs that run on J.P. Morgan’s computers, which they then targeted in point-of-entry and vulnerability searches. The hackers are believed to have been operating from overseas.

feedly-logo11Feedly and Evernote

On June 10, hackers took down Evernote for a few hours with a Distributed Denial of Service, and the next day, Feedly went down the same way. It’s unclear if the attacks were related, but given the close relationship between the two companies, it seems likely. The attack on Feedly came in three waves, culminating in days worth of service interruption. No one knows who perpetrated this assault, but whoever was responsible demanded a ransom in exchange for stopping their aggression. The company didn’t comply, and eventually resolved the attacks itself.

usps-logoUS Postal Service

USPS employee records were hacked, and the names, social security numbers, addresses, and other personal information of 800,000 employees—including the postmaster general—were compromised. The FBI believes the hackers were operating from China.


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