In January 2025, a significant data breach was reported at Gravy Analytics, a location data broker, exposing sensitive location data of millions of smartphone users. The breach involved unauthorized access to Gravy Analytics' Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
In October 2024, the Internet Archive, a digital library known for the Wayback Machine, suffered a significant cyberattack that involved a data breach and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The breach exposed information belonging to 31 mil...
The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library known for its Wayback Machine, experienced a significant Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack starting on May 26, 2024. The attack, which involved tens of thousands of fake information requests...
The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library known for its Wayback Machine, experienced a series of cyberattacks throughout October 2024. Initially, on October 9th, the organization suffered a data breach where hackers exploited an exposed GitL...
In November 2009 a large cache of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia emails going back over a decade was leaked online. Outside hackers gained access to a server at the UEA which held backups of CRU emails and a collection of ...
In March 2018, it was disclosed that over 50 million users of the social media company had their personal information compromised by a third party, Global Science Research, who had legitimate access to the data for academic purposes but they passed th...
In September 2016, the once dominant internet service company, while in negotiations with Verizon to purchase it, announced it had been the victim of the biggest data breach in history, likely by a state-sponsored actor in 2014. The attack compromise...
In July 2016, the company disclosed the event stating that the 2013 attack on its network had affected one billion accounts. It was described as the biggest known breach of a company’s computer network. In October 2017, Yahoo's new owner Verizon dis...
In 2014, the company suffered a data breach of 100,000 employees' information after a database was intentionally leaked online to a file-sharing website and to various newspapers by an employee (senior internal auditor). This case study emphasises th...
Throughout November and December 2014, the company suffered a series of cyber attacks disabling their computer systems, releasing heretofore unreleased films on file-sharing hubs and revealing employees' personal information and data such as employee ...
Cyber Security Case Studies has worked with a number of groups to develop these risk effect categories which represent a plain-english description of the impacts seen in public cyber events alongside their definition: