Largest data breaches of all time

The TRW entry caught my eye, because it was back in 1984!

Here's some more information from wikipedia: TRW Inc. was an American corporation involved in a variety of businesses, mainly aerospace, automotive, and credit reporting. It was a pioneer in multiple fields including electronic components, integrated circuits, computers, software and systems engineering. TRW built many spacecraft, including Pioneer 1, Pioneer 10, and several space-based observatories. It was #57 on the Fortune 500 list, and had 122,258 employees. TRW’s roots were founded in 1901, and it lasted more than a century until being acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2002.

Interestingly 90 million records accounted for about 40% of the US population at that time.

Here are some news articles from DataLossDB. http://www.textfiles.com/news/trw http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ehwIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h...

Does he mean username-passwords as records? Because the size of a record has grown increasingly large from 80's to today. Earlier, they probably just had username, passwords alone. Today, a lot more vital information is included (emails, friends, profile pictures).

I think this would have a much greater impact if the braches were shown from smallest to largest. As it stands, you see the biggest one first, and then everything else seems small after that.