Quiz: How safe is your data?

Uber's revelation that the personal information of at least 57 million users was hacked last year comes after a series of enormous data breaches in recent years. In our increasingly connected world, can our personal information ever be fully secure? Take the quiz below to learn more!

How did Uber react when it found out that 57 million of its users' information had been breached in December 2016?

It kept quiet and pretended nothing was wrong
It paid hackers 100,000 US dollars in "hush money"
It trusted the hackers to delete the stolen information
All of the above

1 / 5

What percentage of the world's entire population was affected by Yahoo's data breach in 2013, which first came to light last year?

11 percent
21 percent
31 percent
41 percent

2 / 5

Australia's immigration authority accidentally leaked whose passport numbers and private information in 2014?

The Australian cricket team
All of the G20 leaders
The UK royal family
Barack Obama

3 / 5

Data breaches are not only caused by hackers. Which country lost the dates of birth, addresses, bank accounts and insurance numbers of 25 million people in 2007, after losing data disks in the mail?

France
The US
The UK
Germany

4 / 5

China has also seen data breach issues in recent years. More than 20 million Taobao accounts were accessed by hackers in 2016, but how did they do it?

Using a database of usernames and passwords
Directly infiltrating Alibaba's security process
Data sold off by an insider
Data from a stolen laptop

5 / 5

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