st24_the_hacked.md

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title: The Hacked
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# The Verizon Data Breach Digest

For this section, we ask you to read the article linked below
("Lifting the Lid off Cybercrime") from Verizon.  Each year, Verizon
publish reports on the security work they have been doing, with
aggregate statistics, changes in trends and other useful information
for security professionals.  They have also started publishing these
case files, which detail specific security breaches that they have
dealt with.  The people and organisations are anonymised in almost all
cases, but the reports are fantastically useful for seeing how real
security breaches occur and how they are detected and investigated.

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/lifting-lid-cybercrime

Read through one (or more) case studies on the Verizon site, and write
a short (~500 worlds) report on the breach.

  - What caused the breach in the first place?
  - What technical aspects did the hackers use?
  - What kinds of data or information was targetted?
  
Discuss your findings in the Forum.

[LD comment: Do we want the students to read all 4 stories linked? Is there anything we want them to do with this reading?]()