Cyber Security Case Studies

In March 2015, the US cancer care provider announced that a data breach had exposed 2.2 million patients' data based across all 50 states and internationally. The company said that hackers broke into a company database in October 2014 and accessed...

In November 2016, the company disclosed that they had suffered a credential stuffing attack on their platform and that 26,500 users' accounts could have been exposed to hackers. 10.5 million players were told to change their passwords in response to t...

In November 2014, the postal service disclosed that they had suffered a data breach affecting 800,000 employees and 2.9 million customers. The service discovered the breach in mid-September but didn’t publicly announce it until early November. Unf...

In March 2019, the aluminium producer was forced to shut down its plants and worldwide network after a ransomware attack led to computers in the company’s global network locking simultaneously. The malware issued a ransom note stating that files had b...

In October 2018, the company reported that its computer network had been compromised by malware during September 2017 which gave attackers access to the company’s data until the breach was closed in September 2018. The breached data included customers...