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The Breach That Didn't Start With You In January 2023, Mailchimp disclosed its second breach in under a year — this time through a social engineering attack on an employee. But the real damage radiated outward. Every company using Mailchimp as a vendor suddenly had a problem they didn&
The Breach That Should Have Changed Everything In March 2022, the Lapsus$ group breached Okta, Microsoft, Samsung, and Nvidia in rapid succession — not by deploying sophisticated zero-day exploits, but by buying stolen credentials, social engineering help desk employees, and exploiting MFA fatigue. A group reportedly led by teenagers embarrassed some
In March 2022, the Lapsus$ group didn't crack some zero-day vulnerability to breach Okta. They bribed an employee. They socially engineered their way into a third-party support provider and pivoted from there. No malware. No exploit kit. Just a human being making a decision. That single incident put
The Breach That Didn't Start With You In 2023, the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability didn't just hit Progress Software. It cascaded through thousands of organizations — government agencies, banks, healthcare systems — because those organizations trusted a single vendor's file transfer tool. Over 2,600 organizations and
The Breach That Didn't Start With You In 2023, the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability compromised over 2,600 organizations and exposed the data of more than 77 million individuals — not because those organizations had weak security, but because a single vendor did. Companies like Ernst & Young, the BBC,
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
