In February 2023, Munster Technological University (MTU) in Ireland experienced a significant cybersecurity incident, resulting in the closure of its Cork campuses for several days. The incident was identified as a ransomware attack, with a group call...
In June 2024, Crimson Wine Group, a US wine producer, experienced a cybersecurity breach that significantly impacted its operations. On June 30th, the company discovered unauthorized third-party access to its internal systems, potentially compromising...
In August 2025, North Korean hackers, potentially the Lazarus Group, were accused of stealing £17 million in Bitcoin from Lykke, a UK-registered cryptocurrency trading platform. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), a branch of the ...
Glaisyers LLP, an English law firm established in Birmingham over 150 years ago, faced insolvency exacerbated by cyber-attacks. Before entering administration, the firm's property department was targeted, leading to increased claims on its professiona...
In August 2025, Vector Security, Inc. announced a significant cybersecurity incident that compromised the personal information of tens of thousands of individuals. The breach exposed a wide range of sensitive data, including names, social security num...
In August 2025, Royal Enfield was allegedly targeted in a ransomware attack, with claims emerging on a dark-web forum of a complete compromise of their corporate network. The attackers asserted that every server was encrypted and all backups were eras...
In January 2025, a significant data breach occurred at Cerner, now Oracle Health, potentially affecting millions of patients across approximately 80 hospitals. Hackers gained unauthorized access to a cache of electronic health records stored on Cerner...
In November 2025, two healthcare providers, OB-GYN Associates in Nevada and Beverly Hills Oncology Medical Group in California, began notifying patients of data breaches resulting from hacking incidents. OB-GYN Associates discovered suspicious activit...
In August 2025, OB-GYN Associates, a women's health clinic in Reno, Nevada, experienced a data breach when an unauthorized third party gained access to its computer systems. The breach, discovered around August 7, 2025, resulted in the potential compr...
In October 2025, Wilkes University faced multiple lawsuits stemming from a data breach that occurred in late January of the same year. Cybercriminals successfully infiltrated the university's computer systems, gaining unauthorized access to the person...
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: