To quote Healey’s Vox interview again, “With the access that Putin had with the SolarWind software - and then, oh, my god, it’s even worse if they got into Microsoft - imagine the damage that Russia could do if it switched from espionage to disruption.” The lesson for businesses On January 6, the Department of Justice revealed the attackers seized their Office 365 system and accessed some email accounts. However, more departments and companies are continuing to come forward to reveal the scope of the breach. government, including the Energy Department’s nuclear arsenal. What data was compromisedĪt this juncture, it seems the hackers accessed the non-classified systems of multiple departments of the U.S. This malware may have started circulating in March, so hackers had months to explore the infiltrated networks before being detected.
government and also members of the Fortune 500 - instead found that they all used the same software for network management, made by a company called SolarWinds.” This massive hack was executed through malicious code inserted into widely-used SolarWinds software.Īs Columbia University professor Jason Healey explained to Vox, “The Russians, knowing they would struggle mightily to get into hard targets - the U.S. The attack seems to have been designed to observe and gather intelligence rather than commit sabotage, but the damage is still severe, and the extent of it is not fully known. According to NPR, 18,000 public and private networks were breached, including Microsoft’s source code.
Hackers who are widely believed to be affiliated with the Russian government breached some of the most highly-guarded networks in American government, including the Departments of Defense and Treasury. Government and Corporationsĭecember saw one of the worst breach stories in history.
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Each of them offers a lesson to businesses on how to defend against breaches - and how to respond to them when they occur. (For example, one study reported that 40% of all Coronavirus-related emails are malicious in nature.)ĭespite the challenges, many of the stories here showcase companies stepping up to make amends in the wake of a breach and limiting the damage with smart data management policies. This year, businesses had to adapt to an already fraught threat landscape that was made even more dangerous by world events. Other stories are uniquely 2020 - they reflect a year that has created a host of cybersecurity challenges. Many of the stories on this list feature familiar culprits: human error, compromised credentials, and determined hackers. In June, we compiled the biggest data breach stories from the first half of 2020, and now we’re wrapping up the year with a rundown of recent data breaches.
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