Incidents from

2007

Data breachResolvedJuly 12, 2007

gPotato data breach (2007)

In July 2007, the multiplayer game portal known as gPotato (link to archive of the site at that time) suffered a data breach and over 2 million user accounts were exposed. The site later merged into the Webzen portal where the original accounts still exist today.

Victim: gPotato
Records: 2.1M

Data breachResolvedJanuary 17, 2007

TJX Companies (T.J. Maxx) card breach

Attackers led by Albert Gonzalez sniffed weakly-encrypted in-store Wi-Fi at a Marshalls outlet and pivoted to TJX's central systems, exfiltrating an estimated 94 million payment-card records over an 18-month intrusion — the largest U.S. retail data breach of its era.

Victim: The TJX Companies, Inc.
Loss: $256.0M
Records: 94.0M