The 10 Biggest Data Breaches Of 2016

10. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services

While not one of the year's largest breaches by number of individuals affected, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services breach in October is of particular importance to the channel. In November, the Navy announced that in the month before, a laptop operated by an HPE Services contractor had information accessed by "unknown individuals." The information included names and Social Security numbers of more than 134,000 current and former Navy employees.

"The Navy takes this incident extremely seriously - this is a matter of trust for our sailors," said Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke in a statement at the time. "We are in the early stages of investigating and are working quickly to identify and take care of those affected by this breach."