The World's Biggest Data Breaches in One Stunning Visualization

Major data breaches, leaks and hacks often consume the news, but the sheer numbers involved — 6 million records or 300,000 leaked passwords — may be hard to conceptualize, especially in comparison to other attacks

The team at Information is Beautiful assembled a fascinating visualization of the world's biggest data breaches, highlighting some of the most high-profile attacks. It's eye-opening and frankly, rather terrifying.

Among the most massive recent attacks include those into companies like , LivingSocial, , LinkedIn, Yahoo and