Cyber Security Case Studies

In April 2018, the company disclosed a data breach impacting 1.5 million customers. The breach was caused by a former employee who stole the data. The information exposed included the customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers and account balances....

The second-largest healthcare breach of 2018 and the largest breach to hit New York state since the breach of more than 3.4 million records in 2016. In January 2018, the hospital reported that it discovered a data breach of 134,512 individuals afte...

In November 2016, a 15-year-old hacked the FBI and released detailed information about every undercover FBI officer in the US releasing the information onto the Dark Web. This hack was described as lacking sophistication and the hacker considered ...

In February 2018, the university notified 1,882 patients that their personal health information may have been exposed after malware was discovered on a physician's laptop and other devices. The attacker may have been able to view patient information o...

In October 2017, the healthcare company publicly disclosed and notified 24,000 affected patients that their protected health information had gone astray. More specifically, a physician who formerly worked at the company stored the data in a Microsoft...