1 year ago

It’s 2013, and Target is a big Microsoft customer, using https://thenewstack.io/azure-went-dark/ and other services from Redmond with a very detailed case study online. An attacker realizes that with its 300-person security team, Target might not make the best (ahem) target for a direct hit.

“This repair HVAC company employee can log into the same Target systems and have access potentially to a lot of other great juicy information,” Williams told the audience at last week’s Civo Navigate conference.

And that resulted in about 40 million credit cards, debit cards and information on 70 million customers all grabbed by these hackers.”

“That’s a lot less than the $300 million we saw for either Target or https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/12/pompeo-says-china-hacked-marriott-1059172, but still, it’s a lot of money.”