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18 Cyber-Attacks That Shook The Web

June 6, 2019

With 2019 being MailGuard’s 18th birthday, we’ve rounded up 18 of the biggest and most noteworthy cyber-attacks that shook the web, and changed how we look at cybersecurity. Sony PlayStation 1 Famously known as an ‘identity-the¬ bonanza’, it was reported that an “illegal and unauthorised person” obtained people’s confidential information, prompting the gaming company to go o line.

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