Editing 2010s (section)

==Cyber security and hacking==
{{See also|Category:Hacking in the 2010s}}
[[Cyber security]] incidents, such as [[hacker (computer security)|hacking]], leaks or theft of sensitive information, gained increased attention of governments, corporations and individuals.
[[File:Edward_Snowden-2.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[Edward Snowden]], former [[National Security Agency|NSA]] employee who revealed a large number of global surveillance programs.]]
[[File:Jurgen Mossack.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[Jürgen Mossack]], co-founder of [[Mossack Fonseca]], which shut down in light of revelations from the [[Panama Papers]].]]
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! style="width: 120px;"| Date
! Description
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| [[Afghan War documents leak]]
| 25 July 2010
| [[WikiLeaks]] published more than 90,000 internal U.S. military logs of the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]]. The documents revealed numerous cover-ups and absence of trials for captured or killed Taliban members by the coalition.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks |title=Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation |last1=Davies |first1=Nick |last2=Leigh |first2=David |date=25 July 2010 |website=The Guardian |access-date=25 June 2016}}</ref>
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| [[Stuxnet]]
| August 2010
| A [[Malware|malicious]] [[computer worm]] was responsible for causing substantial damage to [[Iran's nuclear program]]. Although neither country has admitted responsibility, the worm is now generally acknowledged to be a jointly built U.S.-Israeli [[cyberweapon]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/stuxnet-was-work-of-us-and-israeli-experts-officials-say/2012/06/01/gJQAlnEy6U_story.html |title=Stuxnet was work of U.S. and Israeli experts, officials say |first=Ellen |last=Nakashima |date=2 June 2012 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>
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| [[Iraq War documents leak]]
| 22 October 2010
| WikiLeaks disclosed nearly 392,000 U.S. Army field reports of the [[Iraq War]], the largest leak in the history of the U.S. military. It documented multiple cases of misconduct, abuse of power against civilians and other war crimes by U.S. authorities in the country.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/22/iraq-war-logs-military-leaks |title=Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored torture |last1=Davies |first1=Nick |last2=Steele |first2=Jonathan |last3=Leigh |first3=David |date=22 October 2010 |website=The Guardian |access-date=25 June 2016}}</ref>
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| The [[Offshore leaks]]
| April 2013
| A report disclosed details of 130,000 [[offshore account]]s, with some observers calling it one of the biggest hit against international tax fraud of all time. The report originated from the Washington D.C. investigative journalism nonprofit, the [[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]] (ICIJ).<ref>{{cite news |title=Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact |url=http://www.icij.org/offshore/secret-files-expose-offshores-global-impact |publisher=ICIJ |access-date=4 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405104227/http://www.icij.org/offshore/secret-files-expose-offshores-global-impact |archive-date=5 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[2010s global surveillance disclosures]]
| 5 June 2013
| [[Edward Snowden]] leaked files through the ''Guardian'' newspaper detailing [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) privacy policies, including [[PRISM (surveillance program)|PRISM]], the [[NSA call database]], and [[Boundless Informant]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order |title=NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily |last=Greenwald |first=Glenn |date=6 June 2013 |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref>
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| [[Office of Personnel Management data breach]]
| 5 June 2015
| The [[Office of Personnel Management]] of the U.S. government announced that it was hacked, resulting in a massive [[data breach]], stealing information of around 21.5 million people.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybersecurity-usa-idUSKCN0PJ2M420150709 |title=Millions more Americans hit by government personnel data hack |date=9 July 2015 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> The attack was suspected to have originated from China but it remains unclear if it was or not.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/breach-in-a-federal-computer-system-exposes-personnel-data.html |title=Hacking Linked to China Exposes Millions of U.S. Workers |last1=Sanger |first1=David E. |date=4 June 2015 |last2=Davis |first2=Julie Hirschfeld |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref>
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| [[2016 Bangladesh Bank heist]]
| 4 February 2016
|The [[Bangladesh Bank]] became a victim of theft after hackers attempted to steal US$951 Million from its account at the [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-bangladesh-sri-lanka-idUSKCN0WX1UI |title=Sri Lankan in Bangladesh cyber heist says she was set up by friend |date=31 March 2016 |publisher=Reuters |access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> The hackers failed to steal the attempted amount but still got away with $81 million, which was diverted to the Philippines, making it one of the largest bank heists in history.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/spelling-mistake-stops-hackers-stealing-1-billion-in-bangladesh-bank-heist-a6924971.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/spelling-mistake-stops-hackers-stealing-1-billion-in-bangladesh-bank-heist-a6924971.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=How a spelling mistake stopped hackers stealing $1bn in a bank heist |date=11 March 2016 |website=The Independent |access-date=22 June 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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| [[Panama Papers]]
| 3 April 2016
| 11.5 million confidential documents were leaked from the [[Panama]]nian law firm [[Mossack Fonseca]] that detailed financial and attorney–client information of more than 214,488 offshore companies. The leaks revealed information of various prominent figures being involved in hidden financial dealings within [[tax haven]]s and companies doing business with terrorist organisations and governments under international sanctions.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/overview/intro/ |title=Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption |date=3 April 2016 |website=The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403192714/https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/overview/intro/ |archive-date=3 April 2016}}</ref>
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| [[Yahoo! data breach]]
| 22 September 2016
| [[Yahoo!|Yahoo Inc.]] reported that account information for up to 500 million users in 2014 had been hacked, compromising personal data from the accounts, including names, addresses, passwords, telephone numbers and possibly [[encryption|encrypting]] other information.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/your-yahoo-account-was-probably-hacked-company-set-confirm-massive-n652586 |title=Yahoo Says 'State-Sponsored Actor' Hacked 500M Accounts |work=NBC News |date=22 September 2016 |access-date=22 September 2016}}</ref>
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| [[October 2016 Dyn cyberattack]]
| 21 October 2016
| A currently unknown attacker launches multiple [[distributed denial-of-service]] (DDos) attacks on networks operated by [[Domain Name System|DNS provider]] [[Dyn (company)|Dyn]], making numerous sites difficult or impossible to access for a period of time, including [[Twitter]], [[Reddit]], [[Netflix]], [[Spotify]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[BBC News]], and [[PayPal]]. The [[Department of Homeland Security]] opens an investigation.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37728015 |work=BBC News |title=Massive web attacks briefly knock out top sites |date=21 October 2016 |access-date=21 October 2016}}</ref>
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| [[WannaCry ransomware attack]]
| 12 May 2017
| A large [[cyberattack]] infected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries, demanding ransom payments in the [[cryptocurrency]] [[bitcoin]] in 28 languages. The attack spread by multiple methods, including [[phishing]] emails and on [[Patch (computing)#SECURITY|unpatched]] systems as a [[computer worm]]. The attack was described by [[Europol]] as unprecedented in scale, affecting large companies such as {{Lang|es|[[Telefónica]]|italic=no}} and parts of Britain's [[National Health Service]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39907965 |title=Cyber-attack: Europol says it was unprecedented in scale |date=13 May 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref>
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| [[Paradise Papers]]
| 5 November 2017
| A set of 13.4&nbsp;million confidential electronic documents relating to [[offshore investment]]s. The documents originate from the [[offshore financial centre|offshore]] law firm [[Appleby (law firm)|Appleby]], the corporate services providers [[Estera]] and [[Asiaciti Trust]], and business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions. At 1.4 [[terabyte]]s in size, this is second only to the Panama Papers, it is the second biggest data leak in history.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/paradise-papers-leak-reveals-secrets-of-world-elites-hidden-wealth |title=Paradise Papers leak reveals secrets of the world elite's hidden wealth |last=Garside |first=Juliette |date=5 November 2017 |work=The Guardian |access-date=11 November 2017 |issn=0261-3077 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111031347/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/paradise-papers-leak-reveals-secrets-of-world-elites-hidden-wealth |archive-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>
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