Cyber Attacks and Public Embarrassment: A Survey of Some Notable Hacks

TL;DR

This survey reviews notable cyber-attacks involving public data breaches, analyzing attacker methods and attack details to inform better organizational defenses against such hacks.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of major hacks, detailing attacker tactics and attack processes to enhance understanding and prevention strategies.

Findings

Analysis of attack methods used in notable hacks

Insights into attacker motivations and techniques

Recommendations for improving cybersecurity defenses

Abstract

We hear it all too often in the media: an organization is attacked, its data, often containing personally identifying information, is made public, and a hacking group emerges to claim credit. In this excerpt, we discuss how such groups operate and describe the details of a few major cyber-attacks of this sort in the wider context of how they occurred. We feel that understanding how such groups have operated in the past will give organizations ideas of how to defend against them in the future.