Interactive Graphic Visualizes World’s Biggest Data Breaches

Mesmerizing interactive info-graphic from informationisbeautiful.net displays the world’s biggest data breaches. Examples include the Living Social breach in which criminals stole e-mail addresses, passwords and names, US Military breach that exposed the social security numbers of millions of US veterans, the infamous Heartland breach in 2009, and way too many more.

Part of the interactivity of the graphic is the ability to filter the various breaches. You can filter by year, method of leak, number of records stolen, data sensitivity, and industry. The graphic is equal parts scary and fascinating check it out!! Worlds Biggest Data Breaches.