What are some noteworthy cyber crimes/hacks that have taken place since 2012?
>>58909580
OP installing gentoo
>>58909580
Target Hack
Target stopped paying and cancelled their encryption contract with their vendor and they were hacked 4 months later.
>http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/22/news/companies/target-credit-card-hack/
The real consequence of this was that everyone who had used their card at target (whether credit or debit) had to have a new one mailed to them by their financial institution. tens of millions of new cards.
2013 South Korea cyberattack
Dyn cyberattack
Ashley Madison breach
DNC cyber attacks
>>58909580
Ethereum hack
>>58909991
DNC was a leak, not a hack
Sony Pictures hack was bretty big
>>58909580
mirai botnet that took down internets
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/
>>58909580
the million-sized botnet attack in October 16
I am 90% confident I was part of the botnet because I had a 30000 ping that day