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The Breach That Rewrote the Rules of Computer Security In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted claims processing for hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics across the country. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, disclosed in its SEC
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $16 billion to cybercrime in 2024 — a staggering 33% jump from the year before. A massive chunk of those losses started with compromised home computers. Not enterprise servers. Not government networks. Regular people'
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $16 billion to cybercrime in 2024 — a 33% increase from the prior year. That number isn't abstract. It represents real people and real businesses that thought their defenses were good enough. I&
The Breach That Started With a Single Misconfigured S3 Bucket In 2023, Toyota disclosed that the vehicle data of 2.15 million customers had been publicly accessible for over a decade — because a cloud database was set to public instead of private. No sophisticated threat actor. No zero-day exploit. Just
Last October Cost Companies $4.88 Million on Average That's the average cost of a data breach in 2024, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. And most of those breaches started the same way — a human clicked something they shouldn't have.
The Breach That Started With a Single Reused Password In January 2024, a credential stuffing attack hit genetic testing giant 23andMe, ultimately exposing the personal data of approximately 6.9 million users. The root cause wasn't some exotic zero-day exploit. It was customers reusing passwords they'd
The 23-Character Password That Still Got Cracked In 2024, a security researcher at Hive Systems demonstrated that a 12-character password using only lowercase letters could be brute-forced in about three weeks with modern GPU hardware. Bump that up to a complex 12-character mix of upper, lower, numbers, and symbols? Still
The Breach That Started With "Company2024!" In January 2024, the password "admin" was still the most common credential found in data breaches according to NordPass research. That same year, the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed that stolen credentials were involved in over 77% of
The Breach That Started With a Single Stolen Password In January 2024, a threat actor used stolen credentials to access a Snowflake customer environment — no malware, no exploit, just a username and password harvested months earlier. The fallout hit Ticketmaster and AT&T, exposing hundreds of millions of records.
In January 2024, a threat actor compromised a Microsoft corporate email system by spraying passwords against a legacy test tenant account that lacked multi-factor authentication. The attackers — identified as the Russian-linked group Midnight Blizzard — spent weeks inside executive mailboxes before anyone noticed. One account. No MFA. That's all
