Unauthorised access to employee’s email account @ Ambry Genetics

In April 2020, the company published a notice on its website explaining that their security team had discovered unauthorised access to one of their employee's email accounts between 22nd to 24th January. Although the company stated that they had f...

Aerospace manufacturer defrauded of Euro 50 million via CEO scam @ FACC AG

When news of the cyber attack became public in January 2016, Bloomberg pointed out that if the damages amounted to the funds misappropriated this would be one of the biggest hacking losses by size. Ultimately the loss was an initial outflow of li...

‘Ransomware’ halted production sites @ The Picanol Group

In January 2020, the diversified industrial group suffered a large-scale ransomware attack. The attack caused an immediate serious disruption to the group's activities. Though production activities were restarted 'on a step-by-step basis' from the fo...

Media company hacked by hacktivists @ Financial Times

Contradicting conventional wisdom that only 'non-technical' individuals fall prey to a phishing attack, technologist Andrew Betts of FT Labs inadvertently provided his credentials to the attackers. He was one of several employees who did so. This ...

Financial Advisor 'stealing' customer records @ Morgan Stanley and 2 more...

Described by some security experts at the time as the largest data theft from a wealth management firm, this event resulted in a regulator fine of $1 million for the company. An employee copied customer records from his company's systems to his hom...

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