Covers how individuals and organizations should report cybersecurity incidents to the appropriate authorities. Topics include reporting timelines, required documentation, regulatory obligations, and step-by-step guidance for notifying law enforcement and federal agencies after a cyber event.
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In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase in losses over the previous year. And those are just the incidents that were actually reported. In my experience, for every cyber incident that gets
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase in losses from the year before. Yet the FBI estimates a massive number of cyber incidents still go unreported. That gap between what happens and
The Breach That Nobody Reported for 72 Days In 2023, the SEC charged SolarWinds' CISO with fraud partly because the company allegedly downplayed the severity of a cyber incident and failed to disclose material risks. That case sent shockwaves through every boardroom in America. It proved something I'
The Colonial Pipeline Attack Changed Incident Reporting Forever In May 2021, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shut down fuel distribution across the U.S. East Coast. The company paid a $4.4 million ransom. But here's what most people missed: Colonial Pipeline reported the incident to the FBI
In July 2020, Twitter suffered one of the most visible cyber incidents of the year — a coordinated social engineering attack that compromised high-profile accounts including Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Apple. The attackers walked away with over $100,000 in Bitcoin. But what stood out to me wasn't
The Breach That Nobody Reported — Until It Was Too Late In 2023, a mid-size healthcare provider in the Midwest discovered suspicious network activity on a Friday afternoon. The IT manager flagged it internally but didn't report it externally. By Monday morning, threat actors had exfiltrated 1.4 million
