1. Provide a description of the Attack Category to teach the reviewer about the attack. “A data breach is a security violation or incident that leads to the theft of sensitive or critical data or its exposure to an unauthorized party. These incidents can be intentional, such as a database hack, or accidental, such as an employee emailing confidential files to the wrong recipient”, (CISCO.COM). 2. Provide a statistic about this type of the attack, or about attacks to this company’s industry. “To top it off with more alarming statistics, so far almost 340 million people have been affected by publicly-reported data breaches or leaks in 2023”, (Brooks, 2023).
Attack Category: Cite your sources.
Data Breach 1. CISCO.COM 2. FORBES.COM (Cybersecurity Trends & Statistics; More Sophisticated And Persistent Threats So Far In 2023, Chuck Brooks, May 5, 2023) Provide a company description and breach summary. During the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese government stated they had a data breach that exposed the ticket holders PII, (Lambden, 2021). This data breach did not just hit the Olympics ticket holders, it was targeted at Fujitsu, Japanese large tech company that provides services all over the country, (Lambden, 2021). “The Tokyo Olympics organizing committee had its Fujitsu data sharing tool compromised late last month which resulted” PII from 90 Organizations to be exploited, (Morgan, 2021). Cite your sources. 1. Tokyo 2020 Olympics Hit with Ticket Holder Data Breach (tech.co), Duncan Lambden, July 29, 2021. 2. IOTW: Tokyo Olympics Suffers a Fujitsu-Related Breach (cshub.com), Lisa Morgan, Aug 06, 2021. 3. Tokyo Olympics becomes the latest victim of the Fujitsu hackers | TechRadar, Mayank Sharma, June 7, 2021.
Company Description and Breach Summary Event 1 1 Japanese company Fujitsu had their Data sharing tool was compromised
Event 2 2 A cybersecurity drill was conducted a month prior to the Olympics, all who participated in the event were affected by the data breach, (Sharma, 2021).
Event 3 3 “On July 19, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert saying that the Tokyo Olympics would likely be a target of any number of possible attacks including "DDoS, ransomware, social engineering, phishing campaigns or insider threats..." and that such attacks could disrupt virtually any aspect of operations. The FBI stated that it was not aware of any specific threat, but that partners of the Olympics should also be vigilant.
Timeline Within days, the Olympics had been hit, (Morgan, 2021).
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Event 6 6 Vulnerabilities In this box, provide an overall vulnerability summary. Then provide a summary of 4 specific vulnerabilities for your case in the boxes below.
Japanese company A cybersecurity drill was Fujitsu had their Data conducted a month prior sharing tool was to the Olympics, all who compromised participated in the event were affected by the data breach, (Sharma, 2021). Costs Prevention
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fix what you or company lost. and computers. • 2. Credit to be compromised. • 2. Password Managers.
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