Cyber Attacks and Public Embarrassment: A Survey of Some Notable Hacks
It addresses cybersecurity threats for organizations by providing insights from past incidents, but it is incremental as it compiles existing case studies without new solutions.
The paper surveys notable cyber-attacks where hacking groups publicly embarrass organizations by exposing data, aiming to analyze their operational methods to inform future defense strategies.
We hear it all too often in the media: an organization is attacked, its data, often containing personally identifying information, is made public, and a hacking group emerges to claim credit. In this excerpt, we discuss how such groups operate and describe the details of a few major cyber-attacks of this sort in the wider context of how they occurred. We feel that understanding how such groups have operated in the past will give organizations ideas of how to defend against them in the future.