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The Breach That Cost Change Healthcare Everything In February 2024, a threat actor used stolen credentials to access Change Healthcare's systems — systems that lacked multi-factor authentication on a critical remote access portal. The result? A ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations across the United States for weeks and
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor bypassed their security by social engineering the help desk into resetting an employee's credentials — credentials that lacked properly enforced multi-factor authentication at critical junctures. That single phone call cascaded into one of the most expensive
The 80% Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that stolen credentials were involved in roughly 31% of all breaches over the past decade — and that human-element breaches, including credential theft and phishing, accounted for nearly 68% of incidents in their latest dataset.
A few years ago, a journalist filmed himself reading credit card numbers, PINs, and passwords off the screens of commuters on a London train. No malware. No exploit kit. Just a pair of eyes and a decent camera phone. That's a shoulder surfing attack in its simplest form
A Stolen Password, a $4.88 Million Problem In 2024, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million — the highest figure ever recorded. The root cause in most of those incidents wasn't a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to a help desk. The attackers didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't write exotic malware. They called IT support, impersonated an employee, and got
A Single Email Cost One Company $100 Million In 2019, Toyota Boshoku Corporation lost $37 million to a single business email compromise attack. Facebook and Google collectively lost over $100 million to a Lithuanian man who sent fake invoices via email over a two-year period. These weren't sophisticated
The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cybersecurity In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted insurance claims processing for hospitals and pharmacies across the United States. UnitedHealth Group confirmed the breach affected approximately 100 million individuals — making it one of the largest healthcare data breaches
The Breach That Started With a Single Reused Password In January 2024, a midsize accounting firm lost access to every client file it had. A single employee reused their corporate email password on a third-party scheduling app. That app got breached. Within 48 hours, a threat actor used those stolen
