Comment by transcriptase
17 hours ago
Get real. Companies with infinitely more money, staff, and robust security practices are hacked every day. The only difference is they put out a vague generic corpospeak statement whereas this one admitted it was caused by a skeleton crew on a shoestring budget getting caught out. Given the nature of their user base and how many others would love to see 4chan go down, if things were as bad as you imply then hackers would be taking the site down weekly.
Source?
I have never heard of a bank’s core mainframes being hacked in the last decade (outside of pen tests), even for mid size banks outside the global top 100.
https://www.brightdefense.com/resources/recent-data-breaches...
These are not the core mainframes… the only parts that actually get what might be called lavish spending on security.
Everything else outside of that… banks obviously have incentives to cut security spending to as low as possible.
What are you talking about? There are massive breaches of huge companies who should be doing better all the time.
In 2017: > More than 40% of the population of America was potentially impacted by the Equifax data breach.
In 2022: > In September 2022, Optus experienced a major data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers
That's just 2 off the top of my head.
Did you miss the words “bank” and “core mainframes”?
i.e. what they actually might spend millions of dollars per week on securing.