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.
Not just cyber attacks but IT failues as well at banks, 158 incidents within the banking industry between 2023-2025... https://committees.parliament.uk/co...and-building-societies-in-the-last-two-years/ I'm pretty sure this will get worse as Russia war with Ukraine continues or even escalates. My main concern with this is there is no back up in a complete failure, as M&S and the JLR have experienced that goes on for weeks. In M&S case it was probably lucky they still had stores, because their whole online infastructure was down for 6 weeks. I think I heard with JLR the situation is so bad, some employees have been told to look for other jobs lol.
oh dear lol... https://news.sky.com/story/jaguar-l...ured-for-cyber-attack-journal-claims-13437655 It opens the prospect that the company faces footing the bill for the hacking by itself. Losses will easily run into many hundreds of millions of pounds, with its global factory shutdown set to last for a month at least.
Yeah it's nuts the impact it has. Industry clearly needs some tighter security I see today some lowlife hackers have hacked the personal details from a nursery company and are threatening to post pics of toddlers, phone numbers and email addresses of their parents as well as sensitive safeguarding info ****s.
Trouble is with all these banks and businesses (not meaning the nursery) they've all only been interested in one thing, profit. Just total greed has taken over most of our industries, they've just got sloppy and I expect when job losses have occurred it's not just on the shop floor, but also in the technology departments and left themselves wide open, hoping whatever software protects them. If you build your house out of straw with a lack of fire protection, expect it to burn down in a lightening strike lol.
