CyberWire Daily at 10: The breaches we still talk about. [Special Edition]

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🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this special edition of CyberWire Daily’s 10th anniversary series, N2K CyberWire's Maria Varmazis and Dave Bittner discuss the biggest breaches over the past 10 years. The foundational 2014 Sony hack kicks off our conversation, then Maria and Dave highlight: the 2015 OPM breach, which exposed sensitive security-clearance data and was attributed to long-term access by China amid outdated government systems and security 2017’s WannaCry and NotPetya's global disruption and Equifax's ongoing fallout the 2020 SolarWinds breach underscored supply-chain risks and raised concerns about potential personal criminal liability for CISOs. The conversation illustrates two main threat-actor categories—nation-state espionage and financially motivated criminals—and the increasingly blurred lines between them. Join us as we reflect on how the industry and cybercrime have evolved over the past decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K.
0:05.7	You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K. Hi, Maria Vermazas here, and thanks for joining me today.
0:29.4	We are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Cyberwire here at N2K Networks.
0:35.4	Last week, we kicked off with the origin story of the Cyberwire Daily.
0:40.5	And in today's N2K Cyberwire special edition,
0:44.5	we're taking a trip down memory lane regarding notable data breaches over the last 10 years.
0:52.1	And for reflections on the ones that stand out and why, who better to ask than
0:56.7	Dave Bittner, host of the CyberWire Daily.
1:05.5	Dave Bittner, host of the CyberWire for the last 10 years. It. Dave, thank you for joining me today.
1:13.6	No, it's my pleasure.
1:14.7	It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years so far and still going.
1:18.6	Still going.
1:19.7	So it is my distinct honor that I get to pick your brain today and ask you about data breaches specifically.
1:28.3	Now, this is a, this is going to be a challenge mainly because I think we were just saying,
1:34.3	I have the memory of a goldfish personally.
1:37.3	Right.
1:38.3	And I think if you asked me about data breaches, even just in the past three years, it all becomes
1:43.3	a bit of a mush
1:44.5	in my mind about sort of overarching themes in color. But we're going to try and go back to the
1:50.2	very start of the cyber. We're going to try. Well, yeah, I just want to, yeah, let's warn our listeners
1:55.6	that, you know, this is not an exercise in absolute accuracy when it comes to dates and numbers and all that sort of thing.
2:02.4	It's more sort of tracking experience and trends and feelings for those of us who've been at this
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