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One Click Cost MGM Resorts Over $100 Million In September 2023, a social engineering attack against MGM Resorts International shut down slot machines, hotel key cards, and reservation systems across Las Vegas. The threat actors didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They called the help desk, impersonated an employee,
The $20 Million Breach That Started on a Home Wi-Fi Network In 2024, a healthcare company disclosed a breach that exposed 11 million patient records. The root cause? A remote employee connected to an unsecured home network, clicked a phishing link, and handed over VPN credentials to a threat actor.
Your Employees Are Eating Phish Food Every Day In March 2024, MGM Resorts was still tallying the damage from a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call. The estimated cost exceeded $100 million. The threat actor didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability or deploy some exotic
In 2019, a former employee of Capital One walked into an AWS cloud environment — digitally, not physically — but the breach that exposed over 100 million records started with exploiting trust and access. That same principle of exploiting trust is exactly how a tailgating attack in cybersecurity works in the physical
In November 2023, the international law firm Allen & Overy confirmed it was hit by a LockBit ransomware attack that disrupted internal systems and exposed sensitive data. They weren't alone. The American Bar Association disclosed a data breach that same year affecting 1.4 million members. If you
In 2023, a finance employee at a multinational firm wired $25 million after receiving what appeared to be emails from the company's CFO. The messages were convincing, urgent, and completely fabricated. The attacker used a fake mailer — a tool designed to forge the "From" field in
The Breach That Cost a 12-Person Company Everything In 2023, a small accounting firm in Sacramento lost access to every client file it had. A single employee clicked a link in a fake DocuSign email. Within four hours, ransomware had encrypted the entire network. The ransom demand was $250,000.
Your Home Computer Is a Bigger Target Than You Think In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and a massive share of those victims were everyday people targeted through their personal machines. Not corporate networks. Not
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
