2015 is almost over, and it's time to take a retrospective look at the biggest security incidents that happened during the past year.
Since most companies try to hide the real figures of a security incident, or the investigation reveals much smaller or much bigger numbers than previously thought, we're not going to waste our time trying to classify them. So, in no particular order, here are this year's biggest security incidents.
Hacking Team
In June, an unknown hacker
breached the servers of the Hacking Team, an Italian-based security exploit vendor, and leaked their database, internal emails, and the source code of their spying toolkit
on GitHub.
While the press was busy demonizing the Hacking Team's leadership for selling its spying tools to abusive third-world governments, cyber-crime gangs quickly found
zero-day bugs in the trove of leaked data and started embedding those vulnerabilities in their own attack arsenals.
