2014 Event Office supply company Staples announces that up to 1.16 million cards may have been affected by a data breach in October; the company is offering free identity theft protection for shoppers at the affected stores and advises all customers to monitor their credit records 2014 Event A Dallas hospital worker who treated deceased Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan has herself contracted the virus despite wearing protective gear; the Centers for Disease Control states that her infection results from a breach in protocol 2014 Event JPMorgan Chase discloses that a July data breach resulted in exposure of contact information for 83 million households; the bank states that security information, such as passwords and birth dates, did not appear to have been compromised 2014 Event Home Depot may be the source of a new data breach, resulting in theft of thousands of customer credit card numbers; the company was indicated as the source by various banks after the data appeared for sale online 2014 Event Michaels Stores, Inc. states that data for 2.6 million payment cards at its Michaels stores and 400,000 cards at its Aaron Brothers stores may have been compromised in a security breach; the breaches occurred between May 8, 2013 and February 27, 2014 2014 Event A Mt. Gox security breach that enabled hackers to defraud customers of over 700,000 in Bitcoins causes the Bitcoin exchange to file for bankruptcy 2013 Event A data breach at Target Corporation caused the security of 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target stores to be compromised 2012 Event VISA and MasterCard warn banks that a security breach has compromised over 10 million credit card numbers 1997 Event Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract 1974 Event A's Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract 1942 Event Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines 70 Event Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
