Not just in the US unfortunately. MMR vaccinations fallen through the floor because of that Dr's (Andrew something or other) lies in the 1990s. So now we are seeing measles and mumps outbreaks in nurseries schools and universities. We had a parent last year who believed she'd "cure" her autistic son by giving him fresh fruit. This year we have one who has prayed instead of getting him specialist help as "God will do more than you non believers".
Lol, we’re literally at the stage where ‘truth’ is defined by ‘My mate’s sister’s hairdresser overhead heard a convo at the bus stop where they said it was true’
Cyber attacks: £206M lost at the Co-op, hitting profits by £80M £300M lost at M&S Jaguar (JLR) current loses unknown but is to extend production shut down. Welcome to the digital world.
Crazy amounts of money lost and huge damage to those businesses. One of my friends develops software that tests the software that banks use for their security. He said the banks have been aware of hackers and digital crime for ages and have mitigated against it, but that loads of big businesses have taken the ‘cheap’ route and just gone for a basic level of protection that has now been exposed as simply not being good enough.
Banks are just as bad and one of the biggest heists ever was due to a bank cyber attack to a loss of $1B - Mitigated now, but after all of this... The Bangladesh Bank robbery, also known colloquially as the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist,[1] was a theft that took place in February 2016. Thirty-five fraudulent instructions were issued by security hackers via the SWIFT network to illegally transfer close to US$1 billion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York account belonging to Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery Tesco were also subject to £2.26M loss (2016)... Those deficiencies left Tesco Bank’s personal current account holders vulnerable to a largely avoidable incident that occurred over 48 hours and which netted the cyber attackers £2.26m. https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-fines-tesco-bank-failures-2016-cyber-attack Then failings by the TSB TSB has been fined nearly £49m for an IT meltdown in 2018 that caused chaos and left its customers unable to access online accounts for several weeks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64036529 Absolute **** loads of other breaches as well.
These are a few years ago. I don't know what the current cyber security is like for banks, other than I know my friend earns a LOT of money from doing it.
