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Use your judgement to select a real-world cyber compromise or intrusion suitable for use as an exemplar illustrating key cyber intelligence and operations issues. The incident must have first been reported publicly during the calendar year 2018.
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Running head: CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND REPORT
Critical Analysis and Report
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Critical Analysis
What actually happened?
Reddit is among the most popular words around the world. On the 1st of August 2018,
Reddit experienced a security breach which resulted in the compromise of some user data. The
Redditors who were affected by the breach were mostly those who had been using the site since
2007 or the preceding years. Reddit reports that between 14th and 18th June 2018, an attacker
compromised several employees’ accounts with their source code and cloud hosting providers.
With the company’s code access points and infrastructure being strongly authenticated hence
requiring a 2-factor authentication or 2FA, it was possible for the Reddit to discover that the type
of authentication, which is SMS-Based, is not as secure as they hoped. The major attack wa...