Real World Attacks & Impact by Matt Lyons https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks en-us 2017-11-01 10:07:58 UTC 2025-10-09 06:08:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4e1.png Adobe Hacked https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288320
personal information was stolen 
took advantage of security breach at publisher, security practices around passwords
passwords had been encrypted instead of chopped.
40gb of source code was stolen from adobe]]> 2021-11-24 10:05:57 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288320 ILOVEYOU worm attack https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288366 ILOVEYOU 
This malware is a worm that was created in 2000 by Onel De Guzman who was a college student in Manila, Philippines. At the time he was 24 and he crated the worm to steal internet access passwords as he couldn't afford the service and believed it to be a human right. At the time there was no law in the Philippines against creating malware so Guzman was not prosecuted. The Malware used a bug in windows 95 where some inbuilt code would be run whenever an email was opened so he added onto this code causing it to appear safe to other users. 
The worm caused between 5.5-8.7 billion US dollars and cost between 10-15 billion to remove. 
]]> 2021-11-24 10:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288366 FACEBOOK BAD 2021 https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288650 In 2021, Facebook was involved in a data breach that exposed the data of 533 million users. This caused a catastrophic effect on Facebook's reputation as users were unable to trust a company who had, allegedly, rectified an issue two years prior in order to prevent a breach like this taking place combined with the added issue of a previous data breach in 2019. This, in turn, has caused the beginning of a mass legal debate and, if found liable, Facebook could owe each individual up to £10,445 each. Due to their inability to protect user data previously, Facebook reached a $5 Billion settlement with the U.S Federal Trade Commision causing them a huge loss and a significant financial impact. ]]> 2021-11-24 10:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288650 Bababooey https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288988 On 29/03/2021 a ransomware attack has occurred and affecter multiple primary and secondary owned by the Harris Federation, as an effect, the Harriss Federation had to disable email addresses of almost 40 thousand students and even disabled devices given to students by the school. 
 
This is an example of a major operational, impact as many students during the pandemic could not contact any of their tutors, and they couldn't attend classes until they returned to in-person learning. 
 
In a statement from the Harris Federation, it wasn't disclosed which data has and hasn't been compromised but it's very easy to assume that many emails and students personal information has been breached, the schools also probably faced significant financial and reputational losses. 
]]> 2021-11-24 10:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910288988 The PlayStation hack of 2011This hack brought down the PlayStation system for around 23 days back in 2011 it affected over 77 million players where affected. This is one of the largest data breach in history because all there customers got there accounts stolen. https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910289140 2021-11-24 10:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910289140 South Korea attack https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910289256 South Korea 2014  
100m credit cards have been stolen 
Financial impact 
 He stole personal information from customers of credit card companies when he worked for them as a consultant by simply copying the data to an external hard drive. He then resold the data to credit traders and telemarketing companies. 
 
 
]]> 2021-11-24 10:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910289256 Target credit cards stolen https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910290556 This one is a bit older. But with an $18.5 million settlement, 47 states, and over 40 million credit and debit cards compromised, it remains possibly the biggest ever hack. What most people don’t realize though, is that this breach occurred due to a third-party HVAC vendor. Fazio Mechanical Services had been given network credentials when upgrading the refrigeration at Targets in Pennsylvania. Hackers took this information from the less-protected HVAC company and gained access to the credit and debit card records of anyone who shopped at Target from November through December of 2013.

This attack shows the financial impact to the company, target. This attack would also lead to Target having a massive damage to its reputation as it lost the millions of credit cards to a third party. Target might also fall under legal consequence as it may be sued over the loss of money ]]> 2021-11-24 10:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910290556 Sony DDoS Attack 2016 https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910290844 The success of Mirai encouraged hackers to develop more botnet variants and by October 2017, botnet-led malware attacks on IoT devices affected 49% of healthcare organisations, 82% of manufacturing, 76% of retail, and 85% of government-owned or issued IoT technologies.

“As a result of the individual’s DDoS attacks, Dyn, Sony, SNHU, and other entities and individuals suffered losses including lost advertising revenues and remediation costs. Sony estimated that its resultant losses included approximately $2.7 million in net revenue,” it said.

“The hackers offer these services online for pay, essentially operating a “DDoS-for-hire” service. One of the few known personalities that have been associated with Mirai malware and botnets is known to frequent these forums.

This is not the first time that hackers using the Mirai botnet or its variants, with disastrous consequences for victims, have faced strong legal action. In September 2018, the U.S. District Court of New Jersey sentenced 22-year-old Paras Jha to six months of house arrest and ordered him to pay $8.6 million in damages for using the feared Mirai botnet to launch cyber attacks against a large number of business websites.]]> 2021-11-24 10:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910290844 I miss money Belgian Bank whaling attack https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910292355 Cost the Belgian Bank £56m -Financial Impact 

They had to stop transactions to try and find out what happened -Operational Impact

This damaged the reputation of the bank because you would not want to have a bank with a company -Damage to reputation

Because the attack was whaling attack, the attacker was never charged with a crime. -Legal consequences]]> 2021-11-24 10:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910292355 Ratio https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910295312 2021-11-24 10:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910295312 Cashier Of petrol Station Memorises Hundreds of customers credit cards and pin codes https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910318689 random Guy working at a petrol station memorised tons of credit card numbers and pin codes and used them for online purchases ]]> 2021-11-24 10:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/matt_lyons1/Attacks/wish/1910318689