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The 10-Character Password That Cost a Hospital $3 Million In 2023, CommonSpirit Health disclosed a ransomware attack that disrupted operations across multiple states. Investigators traced the initial access back to compromised credentials — a password that met the organization's minimum requirements but crumbled under a credential stuffing attack. The
The 11-Billion-Record Wake-Up Call In January 2024, researchers discovered a file called "RockYou2024" containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords compiled from decades of data breaches. That's not a typo. Billions of passwords — many still in active use — sitting in a downloadable text file. If you&
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — the largest health payment processing company in the U.S. — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang. The attack disrupted claims processing for thousands of providers nationwide. UnitedHealth Group, Change Healthcare's parent company, disclosed
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase from the year before. A massive chunk of those losses traced back to malware infections that could have been stopped with basic hygiene. If
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'
The Breach That Started With "Password123" In 2020, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed what security professionals already suspected: over 80% of hacking-related breaches involved brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials. That's not a typo. Four out of five breaches trace
