In July 2015, a cyber attacker group called Impact Team stole the controversial dating site's user database by identifying weaknesses in password encryption and used these to crack the bcrypt-hashed passwords to gain access.
The attackers tried to...
In September 2017, one of the big three credit reference agencies disclosed they had suffered a data breach which exposed personally identifiable information for 143 million US customers along with other customers around the world. The attackers expl...
In November 2014, the postal service disclosed that they had suffered a data breach affecting 800,000 employees and 2.9 million customers.
The service discovered the breach in mid-September but didn’t publicly announce it until early November. Unf...
In June 2017, the company disclosed that it had suffered a "network cyber attack" resulting in the disruption of its worldwide operations, including manufacturing, research and sales operations. It was reported that as many as 30,000 laptops/desktop...
US utility company falls victim to a ransomware attack which initially costs the business just $25k. However, improving its control environment and implementing new security infrastructure ends up costing the business over $2 million.
The event act...
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