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THE TOP 5 BIGGEST HACKS IN RECENT MEMORY

THE TOP 5 BIGGEST HACKS IN RECENT MEMORY

MACRON EMAIL LEAK
Just 48 hours before the run-off poll between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, a 9GB cache of emails from Macron’s
En Marche! party was posted on PasteBin, a filesharing platform. They were spread to
WikiLeaks. “The attacks were so simple and generic that it could have been practically anyone,” France’s cybersecurity chief said.


BANGLADESH BANK HEIST
In February 2016, hackers got the login credentials used by Bangladesh Central Bank for the
international banking transfer system SWIFT. They
tried to transfer $951m to accounts in Sri Lanka and the Philippines. Most transactions were flagged,
but $101m was removed. A Trojan known as Dridex was used, which hides in MS Word or Excel attachments.


WANNACRY ATTACK
On May 12, 2017, a global ransomware attack affected more than 2,30,000 computers, including PCs in the NHS, FedEx and
Deutsche Bahn. The malware was leaked from the NSA, and targeted machines
running Windows XP and Windows 2003. The attack yielded just over $1,26,000 in payments and caused considerable upheaval.


YAHOO! BREACH
In 2016, Yahoo! was forced to confirm that its systems had been breached twice, in 2013 and 2014, resulting in the loss of more than a billion users’ personal
information, including passwords. The hackers used fake browser cookies that allowed them to dupe
the site’s login systems. To date, it is the largest loss of customer data by any single company.


CHIPOTLE ATTACK
The Mexican restaurant chain, which has more than 2,250 outlets in the USA, reported that, if you paid with a credit card between
March 24 and April 17, 2017, your credit card
details had almost certainly been obtained by hackers. The attack vector has not been
confirmed, but the malware involved allegedly
read the card data directly from the machines as they took payment.

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