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In 2023, a midsize healthcare company discovered that an employee had been syncing patient records to a personal Dropbox account for over two years. No malicious intent — just convenience. The result was a HIPAA violation, a six-figure settlement, and a brutal lesson in shadow IT risks that the organization'
The Breach That Didn't Start With You In 2023, the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability gave threat actors a master key to thousands of organizations — not through their own systems, but through a single third-party file transfer tool. Over 2,600 organizations and 77 million individuals were impacted, according to
Your Employees' Phones Are Under Siege In March 2024, MGM Resorts was still reeling from one of the most expensive social engineering attacks in corporate history — one that started with a phone call, not an email. That incident cost the company over $100 million. And it's not
One Click Cost MGM Resorts $100 Million In September 2023, a threat actor called Scattered Spider called MGM Resorts' IT help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and gained access to the company's entire network. The result: over $100 million in losses, days of disrupted operations,
The $5.6 Billion Warning the FTC Already Sent You In 2023, the FTC reported collecting over $5.6 billion in consumer refunds from enforcement actions — a significant chunk tied to data security failures. If you think the FTC only goes after big tech, think again. They've pursued
The Typo That Costs Billions: Why "Phising" Lands You Here Here's something I find fascinating — "phising" is one of the most commonly misspelled cybersecurity terms on the internet. If you searched for it, you're in exactly the right place. Phishing (with the
The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cyber Security In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted insurance claims processing for millions of Americans. UnitedHealth Group confirmed paying a $22 million ransom. The attack vector? Stolen credentials on a system that lacked multi-factor authentication. One missing
800 Pages of Security Guidance — and Most Teams Read None of It In 2023, the MOVEit Transfer breach compromised data from over 2,600 organizations worldwide. Many of those organizations claimed compliance with major frameworks. The problem wasn't that NIST standards didn't cover the vulnerability class
Your Employees Are Building a Second Network You Can't See A marketing manager signs up for an AI writing tool using her corporate email. A developer spins up an AWS instance on a personal account to test code faster. A sales rep stores client contracts in a personal
A Poster on the Breakroom Wall Never Stopped a Breach In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and talked their way into the network. No zero-day exploit. No nation-state malware. Just a phone call.
