The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

The largest data breaches in 2024 thus far include AT&T, where two separate hacks resulted in data breaches of about 110 million and 73 million users, and Change Healthcare, where personal, medical, and billing data of potentially hundreds of millions of Americans was compromised. Additionally, a ransomware attack on Synnovis disrupted hospitals and potentially affected 300 million patient interactions. Finally, cybercriminals stole millions of customer data records from clients of cloud data company, Snowflake.