In 2018, Marriott revealed that hackers had accessed its reservation system for years, exposing data of up to 500 million guests — including passport details and travel histories.

In 2013, attackers infiltrated Yahoo and stole data from every single user account — all 3 billion of them. It remains the largest data breach in history.

In 2022, an 18-year-old hacker breached Uber’s internal systems and announced it on Slack. No malware. No zero-days. Just social engineering.

In 2017, a missing software update exposed the personal data of 147 million people. This wasn’t a sophisticated hack — it was a preventable disaster.

In 2015, a dating site for secret affairs was hacked — and 36 million identities were exposed. What followed wasn’t just a data leak… it was the unraveling of real human lives.

In 2022, North Korean hackers posed as LinkedIn recruiters, offering high-paying jobs to tech employees. What looked like a career opportunity turned into one of the most successful corporate espionage campaigns in recent years.

In 2021, a ransomware attack shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S., causing chaos across the East Coast. This is the story of how one password triggered a national emergency.

It wasn’t a virus or a phishing scam — it was a trusted software update. The SolarWinds hack proved that sometimes, the enemy hides inside the system you built to protect.