2015 Event Health care and personal security records of 11 million customers have been stolen from Premera Blue Cross; the health care insurer operates mainly in the U.S. states of Washington and Alaska, but customers in other states may also be affected 2015 Event The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approves net neutrality rules, which guarantee equal Internet access to all users; broadband companies had been seeking the ability to sell faster access to certain customers while slowing access for others 2015 Event Hackers steal personal data on up to 80 million customers of health insurance provider Anthem, Inc.; though free credit monitoring is being offered to victims, such monitoring won't detect or prevent medical identity theft 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 Discount retailer Wal-Mart says that it is sorry for labeling women's plus-sized Halloween costumes as 'Fat Girl Costumes' on its website; the company retitled the shopping category and has sent individual apologies to offended customers on Twitter 2014 Event Court documents have been unsealed for rulings in 2008 requiring companies to give customers' online data to the U.S. government with no warrant; the papers show that Yahoo! sued but lost, resulting in compliance by Yahoo!, Google, Apple, and others 2014 Event Amazon Inc. reports a $126 million loss for the second quarter, its second-highest loss on record; the company has been investing in new services to attract and retain more customers 2014 Event Credit Suisse has pled guilty to criminal charges of assisting U.S. customers in tax fraud and evasion; however, the Swiss government will not allow the bank to cooperate with the U.S. government's request for the names of those customers 2014 Event AT&T adds an unnamed automaker to its list of car manufacturers using the company's wireless service for mobile connectivity on the road; current customers include Volvo, Tesla and General Motors 2014 Event Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy, announces that it has found 200,000 of the 800,000 missing bitcoins belonging to customers; the missing bitcoins were overlooked because they had been stored in an older format in a 'wallet' presumed to be empty 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 An error on the Delta Air Lines website allows thousands of customers to buy tickets for super-low fares, some 90% below regular ticket prices; Delta takes responsibility for the error, and will honor ticket purchases as well as frequent flier miles earned on the reduced-fare flights 2013 Event A security news site reports that the credit and debit card account stolen from 40 million Target Corporation customers are up for sale on the black market; cards are being sold from around $20 to more than $100 each 2013 Event Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., publishes a letter to Chinese customers, addressing issues regarding the company's warranty policies in China 2012 Event Customers of online shoe retailer Zappos must change their passwords after Zappos reports hackers accessed up to 24 million customer accounts 2011 Event John Corzine, former CEO of MG Global, testifies before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, stating he doesn't know where hundreds of millions of dollars of his customers' money has gone 2011 Event The Financial Times finds computer hackers may have accessed details on Citigroup bank card customers 2010 Event A court settlement determines Verizon must pay $25 million to the U.S. Treasury for overcharging 15 million cell phone customers 2010 Event China begins text message surveillance, blocking customers from the country's two largest operators for lewd messages 1995 Event Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked 1983 Event Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
