It’s not just the biggest companies that are vulnerable to cyber attacks – every individual’s personal data is under attack, and the fallout is devastating. So far this year, a staggering 1 billion-plus records have been stolen, and the worst part? These breaches are just the tip of the iceberg.

Mystery AT&T data leak exposes 73 million customer accounts, and no one knows who’s behind it

AT&T was recently caught with its pants down, releasing 73 million customer records online after a data breach. The company doesn’t know who’s behind it or how it happened, but the victims are already suffering. The good news is that AT&T took action to protect its customers by force-resetting their account passwords – but that’s not the end of it.

Change Healthcare hacked, medical data on 1/3 of Americans stolen, and the US government doesn’t know what to do

Change Healthcare was recently hacked, and the fallout is catastrophic. A ransomware attack stolen sensitive health data on a “substantial proportion” of people in America. UnitedHealth, the parent company of Change Healthcare, says the hack could affect around 1/3 of Americans – but the truth is that we may never know the full extent of the damage. The US government is struggling to contain the crisis, but it’s a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.

Synnovis ransomware attack sparks widespread outages at hospitals across London, because someone was too lazy to fix a vulnerability

In June, a Russia-based ransomware gang attacked Synnovis, a pathology lab in London, and it was a mess. The lab is responsible for processing patient samples, but after the attack, thousands of patients had to have their operations postponed because the lab couldn’t function properly. And it’s not like Synnovis was the only hospital affected – this was a widespread outbreak, caused by a single vulnerability that hadn’t been fixed. The UK government is still trying to contain the damage.

Ticketmaster had an alleged 560 million records stolen in the Snowflake hack – because password security doesn’t exist anymore

Last year, hackers stole hundreds of millions of records from cloud data giant Snowflake. But here’s the worst part – these hackers didn’t even have to hack Snowflake itself to steal all this data. They just stole the passwords of data engineers with access to their employers’ Snowflake environments and got to work. The result is 560 million records stolen from Ticketmaster, among others. It’s the same story everywhere – our passwords are just not secure anymore, and we’re paying the price.