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    This lab explores security breaches to determine what information was accessed, the exploits used, and how to protect yourself. Students research recent breaches, including a 2015 incident at Neiman Marcus where 5,200 customer accounts were hacked, exposing usernames and passwords. Another breach from 2009-2015 saw 950,000 patient records stored on six hard drives stolen from Centene Corporation after physical access was gained. To prevent such breaches, the document recommends using unique, strong passwords, encrypting data, and changing passwords if accounts are compromised.

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    This lab explores security breaches to determine what information was accessed, the exploits used, and how to protect yourself. Students research recent breaches, including a 2015 incident at Neiman Marcus where 5,200 customer accounts were hacked, exposing usernames and passwords. Another breach from 2009-2015 saw 950,000 patient records stored on six hard drives stolen from Centene Corporation after physical access was gained. To prevent such breaches, the document recommends using unique, strong passwords, encrypting data, and changing passwords if accounts are compromised.

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    Lab - What Was Taken?

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    This lab explores security breaches to determine what information was accessed, the exploits used, and how to protect yourself. Students research recent breaches, including a 2015 incident at Neiman Marcus where 5,200 customer accounts were hacked, exposing usernames and passwords. Another breach from 2009-2015 saw 950,000 patient records stored on six hard drives stolen from Centene Corporation after physical access was gained. To prevent such breaches, the document recommends using unique, strong passwords, encrypting data, and changing passwords if accounts are compromised.

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    Bandoquillo, Roselyn B.

    BSIT-3F

    Lab – What Was Taken?

    In this lab, you will explore a few security breaches to determine what was taken, what exploits were used, and what
    you can do to protect yourself.

    Objectives

    Search for and read about a few recent occurrences of security breaches.

    Background / Scenario

    Security breaches occur when individuals or applications are trying to gain unauthorized access to data,
    applications, services, or devices. During these breaches, the attackers, whether they are insiders or not,
    attempt to obtain information that they could use for financial gains or other advantages. In this lab, you
    will explore a few security breaches to determine what was taken, what exploits were used, and what
    you can do to protect yourself.

    Required Resources

    PC or mobile device with Internet access

    Security Breach Research

    a. Use the two provided links to security breaches from different sectors to fill out the table below.

    b. Search for a few additional interesting breaches and record the findings in the table below.

    Incident Date Affected How many What exploits Reference


    Organization victims? What were used? How
    was Taken? do you protect
    yourself?
    Neiman Marcus
    Dec 2015 Neiman Marcus 5200 victims Other hacked Says Hackers
    Group with their websites Breached
    username and Customer
    password stolen Use unique Accounts |
    passwords per SecurityWeek.Com
    site

    Between 2009 Centene 950,000 victims Physical access US health insurer


    and 2015 Corporation People’s record to the drives. Centene loses
    six hard drives 950,000 people's
    containing their Use credit and records - BBC
    personally health care News
    identifying monitoring
    information
    Bandoquillo, Roselyn B.
    BSIT-3F

    REFLECTIONS:

    After reading about the security breaches, what can you do to prevent these types of breaches?

    Answer:
    To prevent these types of breaches we need to use unique and strong password. Be careful on
    what you click in internet or avoid opening embedded links in an email. Use Encryption or
    Authentication and if you think that there is something happen in your account change the
    password immediately.

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