Cyber Security Case Studies

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 June 2019, the university disclosed a data breach following a phishing attack in May where "an email pretending to be from ACU [tricked] users into clicking on a link or opening an attachment and then entering credentials into a fake ACU login page...

In May 2019, the company confirmed a data breach that was first reported in April when an attacker began selling data from breached companies including theirs. The intrusion occurred in February and involved an "inactive data storage file" that contai...

In June 2019, one of the world’s leading medical diagnostic companies reported that its collection provider's payment page was breached for eight months and that nearly 12 million customers' medical and financial records were exposed. Patients tr...

In April 2019, the content aggregation app announced it had discovered unauthorized access to databases containing user information. Those databases contained names, usernames, email addresses and cryptographically-protected passwords. It is not know...