Explores the strategies, frameworks, and best practices organizations use to detect, contain, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. Articles cover team roles, communication protocols, forensic analysis, and lessons learned from real-world security breaches.
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The Clock Starts Ticking the Moment You Discover a Breach In March 2024, AT&T disclosed a massive data breach affecting approximately 73 million current and former customers — but the compromised data dated back years. The delay between compromise and discovery is common. What matters just as much is
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the U.S. — was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted claims processing for thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics nationwide. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, later confirmed the breach affected roughly 100 million individuals. The company
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
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2020, Universal Health Services — a Fortune 500 hospital operator — got hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain. The result: 400 facilities knocked offline, staff reverting to pen and paper, and an estimated $67 million in direct costs plus ongoing damages that
The Breach That Proved Most Plans Are Fiction When Uber disclosed in 2022 that it had concealed a 2016 breach affecting 57 million users — and that its former CSO had been convicted of federal obstruction charges for the cover-up — it exposed something uglier than the breach itself. The company had
In February 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that exposed the protected health information of roughly 100 million Americans. The fallout wasn't just technical — it was a regulatory nightmare. State attorneys general demanded answers. Congressional hearings followed. And organizations downstream from the breach scrambled to figure out
23andMe Proved That Getting Breached Is Bad — But Notifying Wrong Is Worse In late 2023, 23andMe disclosed a breach affecting nearly 7 million users. The breach itself was devastating. But the company's notification missteps — delayed disclosures, shifting blame to users, and inconsistent communications across jurisdictions — turned a security
A Single Click Cost One Company $188 Million In 2020, Marriott disclosed its second major breach in two years — this time exposing 5.2 million guest records. The root cause? Compromised employee credentials at a franchise property. Two employees' login details were used to access data for weeks before
A Hospital Goes Dark in 90 Seconds In 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack disrupted pharmacy operations, delayed patient care, and exposed the protected health information of roughly 100 million individuals. UnitedHealth
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the U.S. — got hit with a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations across the entire country. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, reported costs exceeding $870 million related to
