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Lessons Learned from 7 Big Breaches in 2019

Capital One, Macy's, FEMA, and others: key takeaways from the year's most notable breaches.
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Cloud Storage Risks are Real Organization: Capital One When: July 2019 Breach Details: Personal information belonging to over 100 million US individuals and 6 million Canadian residents was exposed when a former employee at AWS inappropriately accessed the data. Compromised information included names, addresses, dates of birth, credit scores, payment history contact information, and other data on people who had applied for a Capital One credit card dating back to 2005. Also exposed were the Social Security Numbers of 140,000 individuals and bank account data belonging to 80,000 secured credit card customers. Lessons Learned: The Capital One data breach resulted from a misconfigured Web application firewall that gave the attacker a way to execute privileged commands on the cloud server hosting the data. 'Cloud storage is an increasingly attractive option for large corporations because it is cheaper than on premise,' said Leigh-Anne Galloway, cybersecurity resilience lead at Positive Technologies. But many companies are putting data at risk by failing to adopt security with the same vigor that they apply to on-premise infrastructure. 'They should, otherwise the financial cost of penalties and lawsuits will vastly outweigh any IT savings.' Image source: Capital One

Cloud Storage Risks are Real

Organization: Capital One

When: July 2019

Breach Details: Personal information belonging to over 100 million US individuals and 6 million Canadian residents was exposed when a former employee at AWS inappropriately accessed the data. Compromised information included names, addresses, dates of birth, credit scores, payment history contact information, and other data on people who had applied for a Capital One credit card dating back to 2005. Also exposed were the Social Security Numbers of 140,000 individuals and bank account data belonging to 80,000 secured credit card customers.

Lessons Learned: The Capital One data breach resulted from a misconfigured Web application firewall that gave the attacker a way to execute privileged commands on the cloud server hosting the data. "Cloud storage is an increasingly attractive option for large corporations because it is cheaper than on premise," said Leigh-Anne Galloway, cybersecurity resilience lead at Positive Technologies. But many companies are putting data at risk by failing to adopt security with the same vigor that they apply to on-premise infrastructure. "They should, otherwise the financial cost of penalties and lawsuits will vastly outweigh any IT savings."

Image source: Capital One

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1/26/2020 | 8:14:03 PM
Great Concise Article
Author has done an excellent job of capturing the main avenues of getting breached with very good case selection. Great succinct read. Thanks for the time and effort that you put into this worth. Best Regards.
Matt Middleton-Leal Netwrix
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Matt Middleton-Leal Netwrix,
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12/20/2019 | 9:37:05 AM
Cloud data security is a huge concern
Great article. We can all learn from the mistakes made in these big breaches. In particular, I agree that there is continued concern about the risks of cloud storage. In a recent survey, 48% of organizations that store sensitive data in the cloud would consider moving that data back on premises. To best secure data in the cloud, it's important to know just how much data you have, who has access to it and which data is most critical in your IT environment, so you can prioritize your security efforts.
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12/16/2019 | 9:05:30 AM
informative
Nice article
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