Computer Security News and Insights
The Breach That Cost a Children's Charity Everything In 2023, Save the Children International confirmed it was hit by the BianLian ransomware group, which claimed to have stolen nearly 7 GB of data including financial records, personal information, and medical data. A global nonprofit with substantial resources still
The District That Lost 81,000 Student Records in a Single Weekend In 2023, the Minneapolis Public Schools district suffered a massive ransomware attack that exposed over 300,000 files — including sensitive records for tens of thousands of students. Psychological evaluations, sexual assault reports, Social Security numbers, and disciplinary records
A Single Misconfigured S3 Bucket Exposed 3 Billion Records In 2023, researchers at Cybernews discovered what they called one of the largest data exposures ever — over 3 billion records sitting in an open cloud storage instance. No sophisticated hack. No zero-day exploit. Just a misconfigured Amazon S3 bucket with public
A Single Misconfigured Bucket Cost Them Everything In 2023, Toyota disclosed that a cloud misconfiguration had exposed the vehicle location data of 2.15 million customers for over a decade. The root cause wasn't a sophisticated threat actor. It was a single storage bucket set to public instead
The Misconfiguration That Exposed 100 Million Records In 2019, a former Amazon Web Services employee exploited a misconfigured web application firewall to breach Capital One's cloud infrastructure. The result: over 100 million customer records exposed, a $190 million class-action settlement, and an $80 million fine from the OCC.
One Unapproved App Cost a Hospital Network $3 Million In 2023, a regional hospital system discovered that a department had been using an unapproved file-sharing tool to exchange patient records for over a year. The tool had no encryption, no access controls, and no audit trail. When an attacker exploited
Your Employees Already Built a Second IT Department In 2023, a Gartner survey found that 41% of employees acquired, modified, or created technology outside of IT's visibility. By now, that number has only grown. If you're asking what is shadow IT, the short answer is this:
The $4.88 Million Risk Sitting in Your Employees' Pockets In 2024, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million. What most executives don't realize is how often the attack chain starts with a compromised mobile
In 2024, a single compromised employee smartphone gave a threat actor full access to a healthcare company's patient records — 1.4 million individuals affected, an OCR investigation opened, and a brand reputation shattered. The initial vector? A phishing link sent via SMS that bypassed every email filter the
The Text Message That Cost a Company $15 Million In 2022, Twilio disclosed a breach that started with a simple SMS message. Employees received text messages impersonating the IT department, directing them to a fake login page. Several entered their credentials. That single vector — mobile phishing attacks delivered via text
