Cyber Security Case Studies

In July 2019, the service disclosed that they had suffered a ransomware attack earlier that week. The service experienced temporary disruption as infected systems were not accessible and data given by customers who had booked a place on training cours...

In April 2019, the company announced that they experienced a ransomware attack that same month stating that they quickly identified, remediated the attack and fully restored their IT services in less than 24 hours without any impact to customers or pa...

In March 2020, while the world's attention was being captured by the pandemic, the company disclosed that in May 2019 they had discovered an "unsanctioned third party" had gained unauthorized access to employees' email accounts that contained personal...

In May 2020, the company disclosed a 'data security incident' where unauthorized actors obtained customer information from their user account database. The disclosure came after the discovery of their database being advertised on a dark web marketplac...

In May 2020, the company experienced an incident where a virus successfully infected servers within their private network by exploiting a critical vulnerability in Salt (the open-source software used by data centers and cloud servers) which was then u...