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In January 2022, the Crypto.com breach exposed a brutal truth: 483 user accounts were compromised because the platform's existing two-factor authentication wasn't strong enough. Attackers bypassed it, drained roughly $34 million in cryptocurrency, and vanished. That incident sits at the extreme end, but the pattern
In January 2022, the Crypto.com breach exposed a brutal truth: 483 accounts were compromised and roughly $34 million drained — in part because attackers found ways around weak authentication controls. That incident is just one in a long line of breaches where stolen or bypassed credentials were the root cause.
In January 2022, the Red Cross disclosed a cyberattack that compromised personal data of over 515,000 vulnerable people. The attack exploited unpatched vulnerabilities — but the investigation also revealed compromised credentials as a contributing factor. It's a pattern I see constantly. And every time it happens, I get
The 61% Problem Nobody Talks About The 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 61% of all breaches involved credentials. Not sophisticated zero-day exploits. Not nation-state malware. Passwords. Stolen, reused, guessed, and phished passwords remain the single largest attack vector threat actors exploit today. I've spent years
In January 2022, a credential stuffing attack hit Norton LifeLock, compromising roughly 925,000 accounts. The common thread? Weak and reused passwords. I've spent years watching organizations hemorrhage data because employees — and everyday users — still think "Company2022!" is a strong password. It's not. This
The Colonial Pipeline Breach Proved Most Companies Aren't Ready In May 2021, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid a $4.4 million ransom within hours — a decision that revealed just how unprepared one of America's
When Colonial Pipeline got hit with ransomware in May 2021, they paid $4.4 million within hours. Their CEO later told a Senate committee the company had an incident response plan — but executing it under pressure exposed gaps nobody anticipated. If a company running critical U.S. infrastructure can stumble,
In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline paid a $4.4 million ransom after a single compromised password shut down fuel distribution across the U.S. East Coast. The attack didn't just expose a vulnerability in critical infrastructure — it exposed a truth most organizations ignore: the speed and quality of
The Breach That Exposed a Missing Plan In December 2021, a vulnerability in Apache Log4j sent every security team on the planet into a tailspin. Organizations that had practiced cyber incident response steps mobilized in hours. Those that hadn't? They scrambled, pointed fingers, and lost precious time while
The Breach That Cost a Pipeline Its Entire Operation In May 2021, Colonial Pipeline — the largest fuel pipeline in the United States — shut down completely after a ransomware attack. A single compromised password on a legacy VPN account gave the DarkSide threat actor group everything they needed. The company paid
