Data Breaches, Scams, and Fraud

Posts on data breaches — and how they could have been prevented — by Teri Radichel

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A data breach led me to cybersecurity. I started off my official cybersecurity career analyzing a data breach. I continue to analyze breaches on this blog and explain to people how they can be prevented.

My First Data Breach

I had someone abuse a misconfigured FTP share early on when I started my e-commerce company back in 1998. I often use that story to explain how cloud misconfigurations happen.

However, I consider my first real data breach and exposure to what attackers can do with vulnerabilities to be this breach of a booking system I wrote for a hostel on Manly Beach near Sydney, Australia. This story also shows you how network traffic can show you if you’ve been breached or not.