Cyber Attacks

In June 2021, a dataset containing information on 700 million LinkedIn users—roughly 92% of the platform’s user base at the time—was posted for sale on a Dark Web forum. The attacker, operating under the alias “God User,” had first released… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2021 LinkedIn Data Breach

In February 2019, the cybersecurity world was rocked by one of the largest data exposure incidents ever recorded. Verifications.io, an email address validation service, left a MongoDB database containing 763 million unique email addresses publicly accessible—completely unprotected, with no password… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2019 Verifications.io Data Breach

In May 2019, First American Financial Corporation—a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services in the United States—found itself at the center of a massive data exposure scandal. A vulnerability in the company’s website configuration allowed unauthorized access to… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2019 First American Financial Data Breach

In July 2022, Alibaba—one of the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing companies—suffered one of the most staggering data breaches in recent memory. A hacker claimed to have gained access to a massive trove of data hosted on Alibaba Cloud,… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2022 Alibaba Data Breach

In March 2018, one of the largest data breaches in history was uncovered, affecting 1.1 billion people registered under India’s Aadhaar system—the world’s most extensive biometric identity database. The breach exposed a vast amount of personally identifiable information (PII), including… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2018 Aadhaar Data Breach

The 2017 Yahoo data breach remains one of the most significant cybersecurity incidents in history, affecting 3 billion user accounts—essentially every account Yahoo had at the time. Although the breach occurred in August 2013, it wasn’t publicly disclosed until December… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2017 Yahoo Data Breach

The 2023 cyber attack on 23andMe represents one of the most alarming breaches in recent years, demonstrating the devastating consequences of inadequate cybersecurity measures in an era where personal data is a prime target. As one of the world’s most… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2023 23andMe Cyber Attack

In March 2020, the adult video streaming platform CAM4 suffered a massive data breach, exposing an estimated 10.88 billion records. The breach stemmed from an unsecured Elasticsearch database, which was left open to the internet without password protection or encryption.… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 2020 CAM4 Data Breach

The late 1990s marked a turning point in the history of cybersecurity, with one of the first widely known cyber espionage campaigns, Moonlight Maze, exposing critical vulnerabilities in government networks. Active between 1996 and 1998, the attack infiltrated multiple U.S.… Read More »7 Key Lessons for CISOs from the 1996-1998 Moonlight Maze Cyber Attacks on the U.S. Government