Cyber Security Case Studies

In September 2016, the once dominant internet service company, while in negotiations with Verizon to purchase it, announced it had been the victim of the biggest data breach in history, likely by a state-sponsored actor in 2014. The attack compromise...

In October 2016, the video streaming company had its user database stolen by an "unknown hacker through unknown means". In the attack 85 million usernames and email addresses were taken, of which 20% had passwords associated with these accounts (these...

In September 2015, the health insurer disclosed that it had suffered a major attack on its networks resulting in a leak of more than 10 million patient's records. The attack had actually happened two years earlier in late December 2013. Personal data...

In June 2020, the university disclosed that they had suffered a ransomware attack which encrypted a limited number of servers within the university's School of Medicine rendering them temporarily inaccessible. Since the university considered some ...

In February 2015, the company disclosed it was hacked by unknown attackers who accessed 80 million records from people using their health plans. The attack began in February 2014 with a phishing attack when a user in a subsidiary opened a phishing em...