In 1999, Melissa Virus caused severe destruction to hundreds of companies, including Microsoft. It is estimated that repairing the costs of the affected system is around $80M.
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Nasa Cyber Attack
A 15-year-old computer hacker caused a 21-day shutdown of NASA computers that support the international space station and invaded a Pentagon weapons computer system
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2017 WannaCry Ransomware Cyber Attack
Around 200,000 computers were affected in more than 150 countries. This outbreak had a massive impact across several industries and had a global cost of about 6B pounds.
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SolarWinds Hack
The SolarWinds Orion security breach, a.k.a. SUNBURST, impacted numerous U.S. government agencies, business customers and consulting firms.
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Bombardier Cyber Attack
The attack compromised a chunk of sensitive data related to its clients, customers, and over 130 employees in Costa Rica
If it were measured as a country, then cybercrime — predicted to inflict damages totaling USD 6 trillion globally in 2021 — would be the world’s third-largest economy after the U.S. and China.
The World Economic Forum estimates the economic cost of cybercrime to be $3 trillion worldwide.
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