Cyber Crime
Data Breach
As of 2015 TalkTalk had come under serious pressure because of cyber attacks, 2 in 2015. The cyber attack on the website seemed to have exposed millions of customers, the attack took place on the 21st of October 2015. The company which at the time had over 4 million customers, said compromised data may of included the names, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses, telephone numbers, TalkTalk account information and even credit card details and/or bank details.Data breach to cost TalkTalk £35m
The costs of
the TalkTalk data breach could reach between £30m and £35m. All that will cover is the initial response, the cost of calls into its call centres, additional IT costs and lost revenue. Police had arrested 5 people in connection to the cyber crime who have all been on bail until 2016.
DDoS attacks
Just recently as of 31st of August 2016, huge video game franchise World of Warcraft recently suffered from a DDoS attack in its new game expansion, as you can imagine its a game that runs by always having servers online so millions of people suffered from this recent attack. A DDoS attack
will cause high latency and generally slow everything down, causing pretty much
everything to be out of sync due to significant delays. Disconnections are not
uncommon, even if the player is able to even log on. In cases such as these with giant video game franchises, so many hacking groups will flock to twitter to claim their responsibility of the action. In my opinion i don't understand why people even do DDoS attacks on video games, just causing grief to people who pay money for these services, luckily it was only around 10 hours the game was suffering from these attacks and was back up and running after that.
References
http://gamerant.com/ddos-attack-world-of-warcraft-legion/
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500256046/TalkTalk-warns-customers-about-personal-data-breach
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500260419/Top-10-cyber-crime-stories-of-2015