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In December 2010, Gawker was attacked by the hacker collective "Gnosis" in retaliation for what was reported to be a feud between Gawker and 4Chan. Information about Gawkers 1.3M users was published along with the data from Gawker's other web presences including Gizmodo and Lifehacker.
In October 2010, the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power suffered a data breach that exposed 750,000 customer records with nearly 600,000 unique email addresses.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence services jointly developed and deployed Stuxnet — the first widely-known cyber weapon to cause physical damage. The worm targeted Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility and destroyed approximately 1,000 IR-1 centrifuges over 2009–2010.
In May 2010, the e-wallet service known as Neteller suffered a data breach which exposed over 3.6M customers. The breach was not discovered until October 2015 and included names, email addresses, home addresses and account balances.
In approximately 2010, the now defunct website DivX SubTitles suffered a data breach that exposed 783k user accounts including email addresses, usernames and plain text passwords.