Insider Threat: The Biggest Contributor to Cyber Attacks
In 2019, a renowned cloud hosting company fell victim to a data breach. The hacker accessed over 100 million accounts of customers and credit applications by exploiting a misconfigured web application firewall. Even though no credentials or credit card account numbers were compromised, the company’s reputation and customer trust were adversely impacted.
Interestingly, the hacker came out to be a former software engineer of the company who shared its method of hacking into the company with its colleagues over a chat application. The former employee of the company even shared the method over social media platforms which, eventually became the source of “leakage”. Eventually, the case of data breach turned out to be an insider threat case ...
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