Cyber Security Case Studies

In July 2016, the company disclosed the event stating that the 2013 attack on its network had affected one billion accounts. It was described as the biggest known breach of a company’s computer network. In October 2017, Yahoo's new owner Verizon dis...

In March 2011, the company disclosed that two separate hacker groups had worked in collaboration with a foreign government to launch a series of phishing attacks against employees, posing as people the employees trusted, to penetrate the company's net...

In March 2014, when this breach was disclosed it was considered the largest espionage coup of all time, one of the biggest ever on US government systems and possibly the single most damaging breach to US national security. The data theft consisted...

In 2015 this event constituted the fourth largest consumer data breach ever... In November 2015, the personal data on millions of parents and children was exposed after a hacker gained access to the server of the electronic toy manufacturing compan...

In October 2013, the company reported that hackers had stolen nearly 3 million encrypted customer credit card records, plus login data for an unknown number of user accounts. Later the company said the attackers had accessed IDs and encrypted passwor...