Cyber Security Case Studies

In 2016, the Republican National Committee hired the data analytics firm to gather political information about U.S. voters. In June 2017, a security researcher discovered that the firm held data of roughly 198 million American citizens on an Amazo...

During January 2013 an ex-employee performed malicious actions on his former company's systems (despite them being a computer security company). He was able to gain access because before he left the company he downloaded the remote access software...

In May 2018, the healthcare company disclosed that 45,000 patient records were accessed by an unauthorized party. The cause of the breach has been identified as a former employee hacking into the company’s servers though it appears that none of the r...

Described at the time when the news initially broke as seven times worse than the Sony hack. In July 2017, hackers broke into the company's servers and stole 1.5 terabytes of data. While many people feared that the hackers might spoil Game of T...

Here cyber attackers sought to make a profit out of the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. In September 2017 when one third of the county was still submerged due to the effects of the hurricane, the attacker manipulated a county employee int...