Category Archives: IT

America’s Biggest Tech Layoffs

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/americas-20-biggest-tech-layoffs-since-2020

Rank Company Laid Off % of Workforce As of

  • 1 Google 12,000 6% Jan 2023
  • 2 Meta 11,000 13% Nov 2021
  • 3 Amazon 10,000 3% Nov 2021
  • 4 Microsoft 10,000 5% Jan 2023
  • 5 Salesforce 8,000 10% Jan 2023
  • 6 Amazon 8,000 2% Jan 2023
  • 7 Uber 6,700 24% May 2020
  • 8 Cisco 4,100 5% Nov 2021
  • 9 IBM 3,900 2% Jan 2023
  • 10 Twitter 3,700 50% Nov 2022
  • 11 Better.com 3,000 33% Mar 2022
  • 12 Groupon 2,800 44% Apr 2020
  • 13 Peloton 2,800 20% Feb 2022
  • 14 Carvana 2,500 12% May 2022
  • 15 Katerra 2,434 100% Jun 2021
  • 16 Zillow 2,000 25% Nov 2021
  • 17 PayPal 2,000 7% Jan 2023
  • 18 Airbnb 1,900 25% May 2020
  • 19 Instacart 1,877 — Jan 2021
  • 20 Wayfair 1,750 10% Jan 2023

Biggest Data Breaches From 2004–2021

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualizing-the-50-biggest-data-breaches-from-2004-2021

Rank Entity Sector Records Compromised Year

  • 1 Yahoo Web 3.0B 2013
  • 2 River City Media Web 1.4B 2017
  • 3 Aadhaar Government 1.1B 2018
  • 4 First American Corporation Finance 885M 2019
  • 5 Spambot Web 711M 2017
  • 6 Linkedin Web 700M 2021
  • 7 Facebook Tech 533M 2021
  • 8 Yahoo Web 500M 2014
  • 9 Marriott International Retail 500M 2018
  • 10 Syniverse Telecoms 500M 2021