The convenience of technology has become an indispensable part of our daily life. But sometimes things don’t go as planned. An attack on an application that you have registered by entering your e-mail address or mobile phone can threaten all your personal information.
We can even do our daily work through computers or mobile applications. We can also perform our banking transactions through these applications. While making use of these facilities, we also share our personal information such as our address, mobile number and e-mail address. Of course, this information, which should remain confidential, is also a ‘Cyber attack target‘ becomes.
For example, imagine that you were left without electricity as a result of the attack by hackers on the electricity network in the city you live in, or that your credit card number was seized while you were on vacation in a hotel with your family. 10 major cyber attacks
10 cyber attacks that made a sound in the history of the world:
- Melissa Virus (1999)
- Nasa Cyber Attack (1999)
- Estonia Cyber Attack (2007)
- Sony Playstation Network Cyber Attack (2011)
- Adobe Systems Cyber Attack (2013)
- Yahoo Cyber Attack (2013)
- Ukraine Electric Grid Cyber Attack (2015)
- WannaCry Ramsomware (2017)
- Marriott Hotels Cyber Attack (2018)
- RockYou2021 (2021)
1. Melissa Virus: It crashed all Microsoft’s systems and left 80 million dollars in damage. Let us introduce you to David lee Smith:
The Melissa Virus, which was discovered by computer programmer David lee Smith living in New Jersey in 1999, was spreading via e-mail and causing your computer system to be overloaded. in them MicrosoftBehind this virus, which makes the system networks of many companies, including . $80 million in damage left. The creator of the virus, David lee Smith, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and a fine of $ 5,000.
2. NASA Cyber Attack: 15-year-old boy coming home from school and saying ‘Let’s hack NASA’
When the year showed 1999, the computers of the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had not yet been accessed. 15-year-old Jonathan James, downloaded around 1.7 million software files and inflicted $41,000 in damage to NASA. The name of James, who was sentenced to 6 months of house arrest for not turning 18, would be mentioned in a hack event in which his credit card numbers were stolen in the future. Stating that he is always innocent, James said in 2008 by committing suicide ended his life.
3. Adobe Systems Cyber Attack: The first cyber attack among countries in the history of the world took place in Estonia, a European country. The reason is this statue:
In April 2007, the websites of banks and media organizations belonging to the Baltic State of Estonia were seized. The Estonian Government, in a statement after the incident, due to this attack. blamed Russia. The reason was the removal of the Soviet-era war memorial in the capital Tallinn. All these events, history between countries first modern cyber attack recorded as.
4. Sony Playstation Network Cyber Attack: Cyberattack that publicly apologizes to Sony’s bosses
Japanese Electronics giant Sony faced a major security breach in 2011. PlayStationHackers, who crashed ‘s Network and Qriocity services, disclosed the entire security system and vulnerabilities of the PS3. While users cannot access online services, Personal information of more than 100 million people was also stolen. Sony held a press conference after these developments and apologized to the users.
5. Adobe Systems Cyber Attack: Whereas they were only going to do photoshop…
Adobe, a graphics and media software company, suffered a cyberattack in 2013 that affected millions of people. The company stated that the source codes of some of its popular software at that time were stolen. with this Credit cards of 2.9 million customers and password information was also seized.
6. Yahoo Cyber Attack: 500 million accounts were hacked
Yahoo, the digital portal with services such as a search engine and e-mail, destroyed the accounts of more than 500 million people as a result of the cyber attack in 2014. captured by hackers. In a statement after this development, the company confirmed that users’ basic information and passwords were stolen, but announced that their credit card information was safe.
7. Ukraine Electricity Network Cyber Attack: What about people you haven’t even heard of cut off your electricity, which you pay for?
In 2015, a cyberattack was carried out on an electricity distribution network in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region. People in this region, where approximately 225 thousand people live, hours without power. Energy companies, BlackEnergy virus stated that through.
8. WannaCry Ramsomware: After Melissa Virus, WannaCry… What the hell Microsoft:
Having dealt with the Melissa Virus quite a bit, Microsoft fell into WannaCry’s network this time. The WannaCry virus, which was created to take ransom from users and targets Microsoft Windows, reached nearly 200 thousand computers in more than 150 countries in 2017. The global cost of the attack in total 6 billion pounds it happened.
9. Marriott Hotels Cyber Attack: Sitting by the pool on vacation imagine losing your passport and wallet
About Marriott Hotels, one of the world’s largest hotel chains 339 million guests personal information was stolen. This information included passport and credit card information. After this incident, which was kept secret for a while, but emerged in 2018, the British Government sent Marriot Hotels to £18.4 million fine cut.
10. RockYou2021: The first one hit so hard, they took the second one
in the history of cyber attacks one of the biggest password thefts One of them happened in the last month. On a hacker forum, stored in plain text and 6-20 characters long 8.4 billion stolen passwords A 100 GB TXT file was shared. All these events were called ‘RockYou2021’. In 2009, the RockYou website was hacked and the information of more than 32 million people was compromised.
BONUS: Being the first hacker to accidentally spread a virus and be penalized: History’s first cyberattack Morris Worm
A process that Robert Tappan Morris, a graduate computer scientist at Cornell University, originally started with good intentions, ended with unexpected results. Morris released an internet worm he designed into the networks in 1988. His aim was to see how long this worm could take to spread across the internet. However, a mistake he made in the codes caused about 6000 computers infected by the worm to crash. After this incident, which attracted the attention of the mainstream media at the time, the FBI (American Federal Bureau of Investigation) accused Morris of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Morris was sentenced to a fine, 3 years probation and community service.