Analysis / A year in cyber security: looking back at 2017
A year in cyber security: looking back at 2017
15 December 2017 |
TEISS Head of Consulting Jeremy Swinfen Green looks back at 2017 – and takes a peek into next year.
If 2016 was “the year of ransomware”, then 2017 was perhaps the year of cloud hacks.
Hacks
We had data breaches in abundance of course. Nothing particularly new there although there were interesting features to some of them.
Equifax
Equifax, the credit reporting agency, suffered a huge cybersecurity incident, affecting 143 million consumers in the US (well over half the adult population). The data of some 15 million UK customers was also reported as being compromised.
The hackers are thought to have stolen names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses: information that taken together can be used to steal identities and set up fraudulent loans. The size of this hack together with the sensitivity of the data stolen makes this potentially one of the worst cyber security incidents in history, one that could devastate the lives of many people.
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