Cyber Security Case Studies

In June 2020, the company disclosed that up to 50,000 customers' personal information may have been exposed in a data breach after suspicious activity was discovered within an employees email account. The information exposed included names, Social ...

In August 2019, the healthcare company notified 33,730 patients that their personal health information may have been exposed in a data breach at a third party provider of billing collection services. The third party provider disclosed the data breach ...

In June 2018, the university disclosed that an earlier data breach potentially affected thousands of current and former students, as well as employees after one server was infected with malware by hackers. The officials worked to contact all potentia...

In December 2019 just before Christmas, the university was subjected to a ransomware attack which affected 16% of its servers (267 of 1647). The attack appeared to focus on encrypting Windows data and it also affected back-ups. The university pai...

Attackers targeted the major US retailer via a phishing campaign on one of its third-party vendors. The vendor downloaded a file containing a virus which was designed to collect all of the data entered within the system. From here the attackers were a...