![]() Social networking website LinkedIn fell prey to a hack executed by Russian cyber criminals who stole the passwords of nearly 6.5 million user accounts. EpsilonĮpsilon – one of the world’s largest email marketing service provider handling more than 40 billion emails and more than 2200 global brands landed up in a soup when hackers stole details belonging to more than 50 of their clients, including some top banks and retail giants! This data breach which was executed as a phishing email cost Epsilon over 4 billion USD. What was shocking was that the hackers had access to all the credit card information of users apart from personal details! This data breach cost Sony over 171 million USD. In 2011, Sony’s data storage was hacked exposing the records of over 100 million customers using their PlayStation’s online services. ![]() The attack was able to facilitate payment processing on a large scale for criminals, an illicit bitcoin exchange and money laundering across 75 shell companies and accounts globally. It was aimed at Ukrainian infrastructures such as power companies, airports, the central bank and public transit. Research has revealed that this ransomware attack was actually intended to mask a targeted cyber attack against Ukraine. Called Petya, NotPetya and by a few other names, it hit networks across multiple countries, the notables ones being the US pharmaceutical company Merck, Danish shipping company Maersk, and Russian oil giant Rosneft. The world had barely recovered from the impact of WannaCry when another wave of ransomware infections was unleashed onto networks all around the globe. As many as 300,000 computers over 150 countries were infected by WannaCry. Having started as an attack on their NHS computer system, the ransomware had slowly brought systems from the UK to the US and from Russia to China to their knees. Delivered as an email attachment virus, it locked up all files in an MS Windows powered system, eventually demanding a ransom for unlocking them. Midway through 2017, the United Kingdom fell prey to one of the most devious cyber attacks it had ever faced – ransomware WannaCry. Once this code which was used to control a pipeline for transporting natural gas from Siberia was activated, it caused an explosion so strong that it could be seen even through space! 3. It involved the Americans embedding a piece of code to the Russians during the cold war of 1982. The Logic BombĬonsidered as one of the most devastating attacks in the history of cyber crimes, the aftermath of this logic bomb was way beyond a monetary tally. Yahoo found itself at the target point of hackers not once but twice as it came to terms with more than 3 billion user accounts being stolen! This incident put personal information such as name, phone number, email ID and passwords of 3 billion users out in the open! And the mystery continues till date as Yahoo struggles to find how this data breach was initiated and executed. The Yahoo data breach broke all records of data theft in the history of cyber crimes.
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