Cyber Security Case Studies

In December 2019, an employee error at the Seattle smart security camera maker resulted in 2.4 million customers having their information exposed to the public. In February 2020 it was reported that a lawsuit has been filed alleging the company was...

In December 2019 just before Christmas, the university was the subject of a ransomware attack which affected 267 of its 1647 servers. The attack appeared to focus on encrypting Windows data and it also affected back-ups of some systems. The universit...

In December 2019, the airline company disclosed that they had suffered "a malicious cyber attack on our company’s IT network" and confirmed that they were working with the FBI / other authorities and a cyber security company to restore affected compan...

In December 2019, the company disclosed the discovery of malware on their payment processing servers affecting likely all of its locations. After discovering the malware, the company immediately engaged an external forensics firm and notified law ...

In November 2019, the company disclosed that malware had been discovered on some of their point-of-sale devices at some locations. The malware searched for track data (which sometimes has the cardholder name in addition to card number, expiration dat...