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The Colonial Pipeline Hack Was a Wake-Up Call Nobody Should Have Needed On May 7, 2021, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid a $4.4 million ransom to the DarkSide threat actor group, and fuel shortages rippled across the
One Phish Email Took Down a $60 Billion Company's Defenses In 2023, MGM Resorts International lost roughly $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to their help desk. But most attacks don't even require that much effort. The average
In March 2024, Change Healthcare suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted insurance claims processing for nearly every hospital and pharmacy in the United States. The root cause? Stolen credentials on a system without multi-factor authentication. One overlooked gap in cyber security brought a $32 billion company to its knees and
The Breach That Proved "Secure Enough" Is a Myth In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering phone call — just one phone call — gave threat actors the foothold they needed. MGM had firewalls. They had endpoint protection. They had a security team. What
