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The Breach That Didn't Have to Be a Disaster In early 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations and claims processing across the entire U.S. healthcare system for weeks. UnitedHealth Group eventually disclosed that the breach affected roughly 100 million individuals — the largest
When Colonial Pipeline got hit with ransomware in May 2021, they paid $4.4 million within hours. Their CEO later told a Senate committee the company had an incident response plan — but executing it under pressure exposed gaps nobody anticipated. If a company running critical U.S. infrastructure can stumble,
When SolarWinds disclosed in December 2020 that threat actors had compromised their Orion software update mechanism — infiltrating roughly 18,000 customer networks including multiple U.S. government agencies — the breach didn't just expose data. It exposed how many organizations had no real data breach response plan in place.
The SolarWinds breach discovered this month compromised at least 18,000 organizations — including multiple U.S. government agencies — and most of them had no actionable incident response plan template ready when the alerts started firing. I've watched organizations scramble through breaches with nothing but a stale PDF from
